firefox extensions silently fail to update

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 12:38:22PM -0800, Net Llama! took 19 lines to write:
> I'm running firefox-1.5.0.1 (from the official tarball).  On one system, 
> for one user, whenever I update the extensions, firefox acts like its 
> updating them to a newer version, yet after restarting firefox, I'm 
> running the older versions all over again.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas, or seen this behavior before?

I saw it here. Two ideas: Did you follow the instructions and run firefox 
as root before you ran it as a mortal user?  Does the one user have odd
permissions in the requisite config directories?

Kurt
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