Thursday, September 1, 2011

chatvibes .. another annoyance/glueware

My wife and kid are responsible for some of my education. The other day chatvibes, an un-deleteable mozilla add-on came up and occupied the place of my google search toolbox

If you have been following this blog, you might remember my struggle with gamevance. Well, let me just say, as compared to gamevance, this was a walk in the park

So first I go to tools->add-ons and remove the mysterious extension. And then it restarts mozilla and to my consternation I find it still very much there. So then I make the next move:
c:\documents and settings\application data\mozilla\extensions (note: this is from my memory, which is not very good. but you should be able to complete the picture if required)

And I find in there a filename with surprisingly no pretensions about it: chatvibes.xml. So, off it was with its head, and restart FF. POOF! Gone :) thanks for making my day