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Uninstallation

Since Mozilla 1.2.1 doesn't have a clean uninstall functionality yet, here's detailed instructions on how to strip out CookieBar. Some people will recommend that you delete the 'chrome.rdf' file and the overlayinfo directory, since Mozilla will re-create them. This is simpler, but it may damage other add-ons you have installed.

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1. Display your sidebar ('F9', or View -> Show/Hide -> Sidebar).
2. In the 'Tabs' popup, select 'Customize Sidebar'.
3. In the right column (Tabs in Sidebar), select 'CookieBar', click on 'Remove', then on 'OK'.
4. Quit mozilla, including the quicklaunch feature (on Windows).
5. Go to the Mozilla install directory (On my linux box, /usr/local/mozilla. On my Windows box, C:\Programs Files\Mozilla.)
6. Go to the 'chrome' directory.
7. Edit the file 'chrome.rdf'. Delete these stanzas:
   

   <RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US:cookiebar"
                      c:baseURL="resource:/chrome/cookiebar/locale/en-US/cookiebar/">
       <c:package resource="urn:mozilla:package:cookiebar"/>
   </RDF:Description>
   

   
   

   <RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:package:cookiebar"
                      c:baseURL="resource:/chrome/cookiebar/content/"
                      c:locType="install"
                      c:displayName="CookieBar 0.6"
                      c:author="Michael Stricklin"
                      c:name="cookiebar" />
   

   and these lines:
   

   <RDF:li resource="urn:mozilla:package:cookiebar"/>

   <RDF:li resource="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US:cookiebar"/>

8. Edit the file 'installed-chrome.txt'. Delete the lines:

   content,install,url,resource:/chrome/cookiebar/content/

   locale,install,url,resource:/chrome/cookiebar/locale/en-US/cookiebar/

9. Delete the directory 'cookiebar' and all its subdirectories.
10. Restart Mozilla. Live in a sadder, but CookieBar-less world.