Loss of Firefox plugins

[Timothy Murphy]

I find that if Firefox is running when I shutdown,
so that it starts automatically on re-boot,
most of the Firefox plugins are not installed.
I have to stop Firefox and re-start it,
and then the plugins (eg Flash) are there.

Is there any way I can avoid this,
short of stopping Firefox before I shutdown?

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Timothy Murphy  
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