Trying to make sense of firefox plugins

[Rogue]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have been having a problem with firefox (on a ThinkPad T23).
> Basically, it exits as soon as certain sites are accessed.
> I downloaded the sources at one of these sites (with wget)
> and the same behaviour occurred when looking at the file.
>
> I think the problem lies in javascript;
> when I turned it off (in Firefox Preferences)
> the problem stopped in most (but not all) cases.
>
> I tried removing and re-installing firefox and js (with yum)
> but this didn't do any good.
>
>   
Somehow I do not see a package called js in my list? Is this something 
that you installed from a different repo? Could you send across the 
sites (if they are public) to the list?

could you also try running the browser in safe mode (no plugins / themes 
are loaded)
 > firefox -safe-mode

If you are still seeing issues, then I guess there is an issue with 
firefox itself

thanks,
Rogue
> It seems to me the problem probably lies in a firefox plugin.
> So I was looking at these, and found the whole setup pretty confusing.
>
> I wonder if there is any document that explains firefox setup clearly?
> I really hate these directories with names like "9eaqek76.Default User".
> Why these idiotic names?
>
> Is there any simple way of seeing what plugins are in use?
> And if one deletes a plugin, how can it be replaced?
>
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