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How to remove add on that still shows up after resetting firefox

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There is an add on showing up called torrent handler. It can not be removed, there is no remove button, I tried to remove it manually and I resetted firefox. It still shows up in my add on list. How can I delete it? Thank you all for your help.

There is an add on showing up called torrent handler. It can not be removed, there is no remove button, I tried to remove it manually and I resetted firefox. It still shows up in my add on list. How can I delete it? Thank you all for your help.

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There are other locations Mac

  • /Library/Application Support/<vendor>/Extensions/<appid> or ~/Library/Application Support/<vendor>/Extensions/<appid>
  • /Library/Application Support/Mozilla/Extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
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have you gone through Disable or remove Add-ons

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I tried everything

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As I said before:

there is no remove button I removed it manually I resetted firefox still it shows up in add ons

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Extensions that do not have a "Remove" button are installed by other software and are not under control of the Firefox extension manager.

Such globally installed extensions are usually found via a registry scan or are installed in a location that Firefox scans for installed extensions.

Extensions installed that way need to be removed via the settings (preferences) in the program that added the extension to Firefox.

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I don't use Windows, I have a mac, does that make any difference?

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Furthermore I don't know which program installed the extension

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There are other locations Mac

  • /Library/Application Support/<vendor>/Extensions/<appid> or ~/Library/Application Support/<vendor>/Extensions/<appid>
  • /Library/Application Support/Mozilla/Extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
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Thank you so much!!

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