Give a try to this grep oneliner command to list all the firefox addons,

grep -oP '(?<=},"name":")([^"]*)' ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/addons.json

OR

This worked for me:

user@host:~$ cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/addons.json |

python -c 'import json,sys;obj=json.load(sys.stdin);

for (i, x) in enumerate(obj["addons"]):

  print x["name"]' | uniq

Output in my case:

Clean Links

Tee-Timer

Explanation:

• cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/addons.json: reads the addons.json file in each profile.


• python -c 'import json,sys;obj=json.load(sys.stdin); load the json parser library of python and loads json via stdin (standard input), ergo from cat


• for (i, x) in enumerate(obj["addons"]): phyton code to loop through the array of addons...


• print x["name"]' | uniq ...and print its name only one.