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Just a clarification: It's not 'mandatory', it just gets installed by default with the Firefox package. Put clearly this means "you can just disable it". Still
by thenduks 17y ago
Just a clarification: It's not 'mandatory', it just gets installed by default with the Firefox package. Put clearly this means "you can just disable it".
Still, what a crappy 'extension' to Firefox :/, this is why I build mine from source.
- windsurfer 17y agoYou can't uninstall it without removing Firefox though. It's enabled by default, too, so all users of your Ubuntu machine will get it enabled no matter what.
- martey 17y agoIt's a Firefox extension, and so can be disabled like any other Firefox extension.
- blasdel 17y agoIt's not like any other Firefox extension -- it's a system extension, it's not in your profile in ~/.mozilla It will always be enabled by default, you can't uninstall it, and you can only disable it after you've created a profile.
- thenduks 17y agoIt's enabled 'by default', but it's still a regular Firefox extension that can be turned off easily. Comment #2 by Alexander Sack reads: Thanks. To workaround you can disable the extension in tools -> addons. Later Adam Bielinsky fleshes it out: At the moment, every user on a machine has to click Tools, then Addons, then Extensions, then Multisearch, then Disable, and then restart Firefox.
- maweaver 17y agoYou're right in that it's not mandatory, but the fact that they keep saying it can be easily removed "for the time being" does make me a little suspicious. "you can disable the extension "Multisearch" in Tools -> Addons for the time being." "its just an intermediate thing what you see now and you can always disable it in Tools -> Addons for the time being." Maybe they're just being cautious with their wording because it's still alpha.