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Extensions can be good, and extensions can be bad. The good: Jybe. This beta allows you to co-browse. Once you have created a “session”, others can join and chat. Both (or all) users can control where the browser goes.

Jybe works with Firefox and IE (Windows) so you really can teach your grandma to use eBay.

And now the bad: Piggy-Bank sounds like fun, but it’s size and reliance on Java made a mess out of my profile. Even the manual uninstall recommended in the docs failed.

How’d I ever dig my way out? I indexed my profile folder and searched it for content for the offending extension’s name. Firefox keeps most of its configuration files in RDF format, so the text is searchable and the XML elements easy to identify and delete.

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