On 06/13/18 20:27, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
It seems I picked this up when I built this F28 system in both
/usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}.xpi
/usr/lib64/thunderbird/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}.xpi
Seems to be an unpleasant Ads thing. I noticed it because how I run Thunderbird
(from a script in a terminal window) shows the messages:
1528602128990 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for
{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property
1528688529402 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for
{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property
1528774929718 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for
{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property
1528861329720 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for
{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property
The tools I found for removing it are all windows based. How do I get rid of
this? Stop Thunderbird and Firefox and delete the .xpi files?
If you did a "dnf whatprovides" on those files you'd lean they were packaged
with
firefox-60.0.1-6 and thunderbird-52.8.0-1.
I do not know the role they play. I suppose you could move them out of the way and
see if there are any adverse effects. Their removal may cause subsequent problems,
verification may fail, when those packages are updated.
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