[PCWorks] What happened to the .xpi files that FireFox was using for plugins/extensions/addons? Where are they located after they're installed?

From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:43:51 -0500

Can anyone tell me please what happened to the .xpi files that
FireFox was using for plugins/extensions/addons (whatever you
want to call them)?

I've always been able to search for *.xpi and find the folder
for the installed plugins so I could make backups of them.
Now, and I don't know when this happened, there's no such file
names on my HD!  The "plugins" folder only has a few .dll
files.  The "extensions" folder only has 4 FOLDERS, but inside
of each of those folders IS a .rdf file (which is part of the
.xpi compressed files).  But again, that's only 4 folders for
more than a dozen plugins!

I need to make backups for my currently installed plugins
before I try and update them, but I can't.  Most I already have
saved (original or older versions), but many times I've done
plugin updates and I assumed the updated versions were of
course being PUT ON my HD!  Apparently not, at least not in any
recognizable form!  (I'm not about to update any of them and
not have a backup because the updates probably have **removed**
features or added new bugs, which is normally the case).

Thanks,
-Clint

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