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Chad--24216
Asked: 2011-09-26 18:59:47 +0800 CST

Is it possible to uninstall individual Firefox plugins?

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I have purposely installed two plugins into Firefox: Flash Player & Gecko-mediaplayer (I installed gecko-mediaplayer solely so I could get the Windows Media Player Plug-in). Every single other plugin listed in my Firefox plugins page is unused/unneeded. Several of the plugins list "Gecko Media Player" underneath them. Yet I installed gecko-mediaplayer only to get the "Windows Media Player Plug-in". Is it possible to uninstall all of the following plugins except for "Shockwave Flash" and "Windows Media Player Plug-in"? How do I do it?

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    Type about:plugins into the address bar. It will show you the filename of each plugin. You can find the name of the package that ships each plugin with: dpkg -S /path/to/plugin.so Then you can uninstall those packages using Synaptic.

    For example, the Totem plugin is in the package totem-mozilla, and iTunes Application Detector is in rhythmbox-plugins. Note that some packages might ship more than one plugin - if you need one of them, you can't remove the others.

    There is no way to uninstall plugins directly from Firefox.

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