The terminology used by the Mozilla team is sometimes a little bit confusing. Could you for instance define the differences between add-ons, extensions and plugins ? The first two and the latter are different which is easy to explain. Plugins are installed by third-party applications while add-ons and extensions are installed by the user himself.
The big question that I asked myself was if I really needed all those plugins. Before I could answer that question I had to find out which were installed. The command about:plugins in the address bar reveals all plugins currently loaded in Firefox. I discovered several plugins that I was not using for sure and some that I did not want to mess with.
An Adobe Reader plugin was still installed although I did uninstall the program a while ago. I discovered a Microsoft Office 2007 plugin, a Real Player plugin, AOL Media Playback plugin, Windows Presentation Foundation plugin and several more that I was pretty sure about that I did not need them.
The location of those plugins was mentioned in that menu as well which made it easy to track them down. I decided to move all plugins that I thought that I did not need anymore to a temporary location. This ensured that I would be able to move them back if I would discover that an application or website would need those plugins.
You should refresh the settings once you moved those plugins because sometimes other applications tend to take the place of those that you have removed.
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6 Responses to “Check and Remove Plugins in Firefox”
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[...] Plug-ins savo nuožiūra nepatariama – gali iš tinklalapių dingti didelė dalis informacijos. gHacks siūlo abejotinos vertės įskiepius tiesiog perkelti į kitą, laikiną aplanką ir stebėti, kaip sekasi. Jei per savaitę-dvi apsiėjote be jo, galite mesti lauk apskritai. [...]
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[...] The other about links that fall into the useful category are about:cache which displays cache statistics and the location of the hard disk cache. It provides links to display the contents of the files that are currently cached in memory and on the disk. The other protocol link that can be useful on some occasions is the about:plugins protocol link which displays all plugins that are used by Firefox. I have written an article that is explaining how to make use of that link to check and remove plugins in Firefox. [...]
would be nice it this was in plain english for us computer leliters
want to remove plug ins as it disturbing to open some websites
Leesen veree keerfelee: ai vill saay zis ownlee vance :-)
Only 1/2 done. “You should refresh the settings” How?