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Disabling plugins does not work

Sat, 10/04/2008 - 13:26 — Anonymous

With FoxyProxy 2.8.9 installed, the Plugins-Manager of Firefox 3 does not remember which plugins were disabled when the browser is restarted. A simple test would be to disable Flash, then restart the browser. It will be re-enabled. One has to disable FoxyProxy in the Extensions Manager to get the correct behaviour.

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Sat, 10/04/2008 - 22:36 — ericjung

Hi, I'm not able to

Hi,

I'm not able to reproduce this with the Flash plugin. I use the Extension Manager to enable/disable it and FoxyProxy. With FoxyProxy installed and enabled, I'm able to disable the Flash plugin (version 9.0 r115), restart Firefox, and the Extension Manager shows the Flash plugin is still disabled. It sounds like your Firefox profile might be corrupted. Can you try this in a new profile with FoxyProxy and Flash? Instructions on how to do this are here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Thank you,
Eric Jung
Author
FoxyProxy

Sun, 10/05/2008 - 00:28 — Anonymous (not verified)

Nada

Well, I've tried your suggestion, and it didn't work. I did a test case on a new profile which has the following plugins

- Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U10/Java(TM) Platform SE binary
- Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U10/Java Plug-in 1.6.0_10 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)
- Mozilla Default Plug-in
- Shockwave Flash / Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12

After installing FoxyProxy 2.8.9 on Firefox 3.0.3, and disabling all of the above plugins, only the 2nd one (DLL Helper) remained disabled when restarting the browser. All of the others were re-enabled.

Sun, 10/05/2008 - 04:05 — ericjung

What operating system are

What operating system are you using?

Sun, 10/05/2008 - 10:03 — Anonymous (not verified)

Windows XP Media Center

Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2005 Service Pack 3

Mon, 10/06/2008 - 11:12 — Anonymous (not verified)

I'm dual booting with

I'm dual booting with Windows Vista Home Premium, but i'm unable to replicate this problem on the Vista partition. I was guessing that my Firefox settings were broken, but reinstalling Firefox or FoxyProxy didn't help. I tried downloading a Firefox 3.1 nightly, and that didn't help either. I'm guessing the problem is related to something else installed, or the OS [which I think is unlikely].

Mon, 10/06/2008 - 15:14 — ericjung

I'm unable to replicate

I'm unable to replicate this, and it does sound like a problem with your environment. I'd suggest asking for help in the firefox support forums" or, if you use IRC, at irc.mozilla.org #firefox.

Sorry I couldn't help further.

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 16:56 — Anonymous (not verified)

Installed XP Pro

I've removed XP MCE, and installed XP Pro, and the same problem persists. The only difference I can see, is that my root drive for winxp is D: instead of C:. I think you may have something hardcoded to work with C instead of D, and that maybe causing the problem

Sun, 10/12/2008 - 18:56 — ericjung

There is a hard-coded value

There is a hard-coded value for your drive letter in Firefox's preferences. Read the first two FAQ questions and answers here. However, I don't see how this is related to disabling Flash and Adobe plugins. FWIW, this hard-coded issue will be fixed in FoxyProxy 2.9, but again I don't see how this can possibly be related to your problem.

Anyway, if you change the preference from the hard-coded path to " " (that's a single space without quotes), FoxyProxy will look for foxyproxy.xml in the Firefox profile directory... which is most likely what you want.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 12:00 — Anonymous (not verified)

Problem ... vanished?

You are right. I had installed Chatzilla with the intention of going in the mozilla IRC support channel. However, the problem stayed around for a while, but yesterday, I noticed the problem has gone away. Foxyproxy is enabled, and the plugins which are disabled have stayed disabled. I can't remember doing anything significant in Firefox. I'll monitor my changes to Firefox more closely, as I wasn't expecting the problem to go away so easily.

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 12:03 — Anonymous (not verified)

by the way.

I didn't change any hard-coded value, so you may not have to fix anything.

Wed, 10/15/2008 - 02:15 — ericjung

Thanks for the update.

Thanks for the update.

Thu, 10/16/2008 - 19:55 — Maniaxx

I do have the same problem.

I do have the same problem. I have to disable FoxyProxy at the moment if i want to control active plugins.

If anyone can recommend a configuration list tool that will list/export my firefox config/settings/environment i can post my configuration here if necessary.

XPSP3
Firefox 3.0.3

Thu, 10/23/2008 - 08:22 — jazkim

I have is problem too , but

I have this problem too , but some different.

When I enabled Foxyproxy I can not disable any plugin with Extension Manager , Once I restart Firefox , all of them enabled again , even the Quick Time Plug-in which is tagged as unsafe .

I created a new profile to test this problem , by installed extensions one by one , I found the problem is Foxyproxy.

Only way to avoid those problem is opening about:plugins page immediately when I started firefox .

Once I disabled Foxyproxy , everything goes well.

My OS version is Windows XP professional SP2
Firefox version is 3.0.3
Foxyproxy version is 2.8.9

And sorry for my poor english .

Sat, 12/27/2008 - 05:31 — Anonymous (not verified)

Work-around

See this discussion for a follow-up and a potential work-around we found. Unfortunately I didn't notice this thread when I started the other one.

Thu, 01/22/2009 - 07:54 — natali (not verified)

hard-coded value

Anyway, if you change the preference from the hard-coded path to " " (that's a single space without quotes), FoxyProxy will look for foxyproxy.xml in the Firefox profile directory... which is most likely what you want.