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How to enable extension when running Firefox for the first time?

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Problem

I need to run Firefox each time in a new profile directory with my extension enabled. What I do is the following: Create temporary directory for storing profile (/tmp/profile.123) Create extensions directory (/tmp/profile.123/extensions) Create extension proxy as described here (/tmp/profile.123/ex…

Error Output

firefox -no-remote -profile /tmp/profile.123 -url http://www.google.com

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It looks like workaround with modifying extensions.sqlite doesn't work anymore and such database doesn't exist. It was described here: http://research.zscaler.com/2012/09/how-to-install-silently-malicious.html To enable extension automatically on fi…

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