657149 - Cannot remove a disabled incompatible extension which has been globally installed

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20110511 SeaMonkey/2.1
Build Identifier: 

I updated from SeaMonkey 2.0.14 to SeaMonkey 2.1RC1.  One of my extensions -- Show Password On Input 0.1.3 -- is incompatible with SeaMonkey 2.1.  The <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/show-password-on-input/> site clearly states "Not available for SeaMonkey 2.1".  

Although the extension shows as "Disabled", Add-on Manager does not provide any way to remove this extension.  


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Can you attach a copy of extensions.sqlite from your profile folder.

Comment 2

[David E. Ross]

Attachment: extensions.sqlite (raw)

I have attached the requested file.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

That extensions seems to be installed in the application directory and we don't manage files there.

Comment 4

[David E. Ross]

I keep notes on all software I install.  My notes indicate that Show Password On Input was installed in my profiles.  

At the time I installed it, root installation of extensions was being phased out and no longer supported by the Add-ons Manager user interface.  

Furthermore, I just now installed SeaMonkey 2.1RC1 over SeaMonkey 2.0.14.  In the past, this would have erased all root-installed extensions.  

In any case, how do I get rid of it?

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

The database claims the extension is installed at C:\SeaMonkey2\extensions\[e-mail]. Deleting that directory would remove it. If it isn't installed there then there is something else going on.

Comment 6

[David E. Ross]

I deleted the extensions folder from the SeaMonkey root.  That did indeed remove the extension.  Marking this bug report as Invalid.