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How to have the same add-ons (in firefox) on two users?

Asked by Bunnyavengers

I had Installed some add-ons (in firefox) on my user. But after I created another user for someone else It requires to download them again.
I also noticed that Avast Anti virus was not up to date on the new user. I had to download them separately for the new user.
How do I install these on both the users by installing it only on one of them?
I am already in the same group as his.

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Bunnyavengers (bunnyavengers) said : 		#1

I am using UBUNTU 7.04.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#2

Firefox extensions are held in your home directory under ~/.mozilla/firefox/<some_generated_name>/extensions

You could try copying the contents of that folder over to the other users folder to the same place.

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Bunnyavengers (bunnyavengers) said : 		#3

I tried but nothing happened.

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Bunnyavengers (bunnyavengers) said : 		#4

I even have install the flash player again for the second user.

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Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) said : 		#5

You can try to copy the extensions to /usr/share/firefox-extensions or /usr/share/firefox/extensions. That's where apt puts the extensions available from repositories but may be it require that you modify the extension (or may be not, i haven't tried this).

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Bunnyavengers (bunnyavengers) said : 		#6

I did not find the folder "extentions" in the /usr/share/firefox and there is no /usr/share/firefox-extentions.

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Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) said : 		#7

It's "extenSions" with S instead of T.

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Bunnyavengers (bunnyavengers) said : 		#8

Just a typo.
But I did not find any such folder. It is not hidden.

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Best Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) said : 		#9

Do you have firefox fully installed?

As you can see, in my system that is a 7.04, there are two firefox related directories inside /usr/share, and both of them are extensions related

$ ls -l /usr/share/firefox-extensions/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-02-23 18:27 webdeveloper

$ ls -l /usr/share/firefox/extensions/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-04-04 04:15 <email address hidden>

That's way i suggested you to try that.

Another different path would be to ask for the inclusion in universe of the extensions you are interested in.

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Bunnyavengers (bunnyavengers) said : 		#10

Ok I will see to it.
Thank you very much for answering all my questions.