# no add on; **URL:** \ **Category:** SLED Applications\ **Created:** [May 12, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959 "2013-05-12T23:11:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![b1ygyb87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@b1ygyb87](https://forums.suse.com/u/b1ygyb87)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959/1 "2013-05-12T23:11:59Z")
in mozzila firefox , it will not allow add on., ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959/2 "2013-05-13T01:35:25Z")
> [@](#): > > On Sun 12 May 2013 08:14:01 PM CDT, b1ygyb87 wrote: > > in mozzila firefox , it will not allow add on., Hi I have numerous addons running on SLE Firefox. What is the name of the add on your trying? – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.4-desktop up 17:20, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.27, 0.20 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Arrandale ---
**Author:** ![smflood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/smflood/32/10576_2.png) [@smflood](https://forums.suse.com/u/smflood)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959/3 "2013-05-13T10:23:49Z")
b1ygyb87 wrote: [color=blue] > in mozzila firefox , it will not allow add on.,[/color] In addition to Malcolm asking which add-on you’re trying to install, which version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) are you using and what version of Mozilla Firefox? ## HTH. Simon SUSE Knowledge Partner ---
**Author:** ![b1ygyb87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@b1ygyb87](https://forums.suse.com/u/b1ygyb87)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959/4 "2013-05-15T03:54:59Z")
download status bar.-sidebar= .download them all.= also no theme. ---
**Author:** ![b1ygyb87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@b1ygyb87](https://forums.suse.com/u/b1ygyb87)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959/5 "2013-05-15T03:57:30Z")
sled.11.0 firefox 3.0 ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959/6 "2013-05-15T15:08:40Z")
[QUOTE=b1ygyb87;13619]sled.11.0 firefox 3.0[/QUOTE] This might be your problem. Firefox 3.0 is very old, it is possible that the add ons you are trying to use are not compatible with Firefox 3.0. I just downloaded a copy of Firefox 3.0.18 and was able to add the Live HTTP Headers add-on though. You could try quitting Firefox, rename your ~/.mozilla and then start Firefox and see if add-ons now work. SLED 11.0 went End Of Life in October 2010. I strongly recommend that you update to SLED 11 SP2. For details of how to update see [http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7010200](http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7010200) Note that you have to update to SP1 then to SP2. ---
**Author:** ![b1ygyb87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@b1ygyb87](https://forums.suse.com/u/b1ygyb87)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959/7 "2013-05-15T20:52:45Z")
thank you for trying to help. I downloaded another firefox,but it came as -tar-1. and i dont know how to install it. one error message says it is not a rpm file. it was extracted. could you give a simple way to install tar? Any way i will update. thanks. ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959/8 "2013-05-15T22:36:54Z")
[QUOTE=b1ygyb87;13627]thank you for trying to help. I downloaded another firefox,but it came as -tar-1. and i dont know how to install it. one error message says it is not a rpm file. it was extracted. could you give a simple way to install tar? [/QUOTE] tar is an archive format. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar\_%28computing%29](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28computing%29) As such you do not install tar files, you simply unpack them. Once unpacked you can run whatever is inside. [QUOTE] Any way i will update. thanks.[/QUOTE] When you update you will get a new, supported, version of Firefox included. So don’t worry about trying to manually download a newer version of Firefox, just get the machine updated and Firefox will be taken care of as part of that. ---
**Author:** ![b1ygyb87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@b1ygyb87](https://forums.suse.com/u/b1ygyb87)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959/9 "2013-05-16T22:12:29Z")
i updated to SP1. It is now firefox 3.0.6.will go for SP2 today.let you know. could you explain how to unpack -tar,gz? ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/no-add-on/23959/10 "2013-05-17T14:06:05Z")
> [@b1ygyb87;13636](#): > > could you explain how to unpack -tar,gz? If you double click it it should open in File Roller which has a button marked ‘Extract’. Or at the command line run ```auto $ tar xfv whatever.tar.gz ```