Way to temporarily disable plugins in Firefox, when testing site requirements

[Rahul Sundaram]

Nigel Henry wrote:
>>From time to time folks are asking to test out a site to see if it works in 
> Firefox. If you have all the various plugins installed, the site may work ok, 
> but you have no idea as to which of your plugins are making the site work ok, 
> or which plugins are required by the site.
> 
> As an example, someone asked to test out a site, and as it so happened I had a 
> distro running with no flash-plugin, or Suns JRE installed. The site had 2 
> windows with plugin problems. One wanted flash, the other JRE.
> 
> Perhaps I might be asking a bit much, but is there some way to temporarily 
> disable all the Firefox/Mozilla plugins, so as to check out which plugins a 
> particular site requires?
> 
> A bit of an academic question, but it would be nice if it was possible.

# firefox --safe-mode disables plugins and themes only for that session.

Rahul