No script doesn't intall for all accounts

[Sammy]

I have two accounts on my home use HP laptop running Windows 7, one account as admin and one as a user with no admin privileges. I use the user account for most day to day activities where I don't need to be admin. I logged into the admin account and downloaded Firefox 4 (had previously been using 3.x without noscript) and installed it and then downloaded and installed noscript and verified everything was ok.

I logged off as admin and logged into the user account. Firefox 4 was working but now there was no evidence of noscript. I tried to download no script again from within the user account, but then when I went to install it, I got the message that no script could not be installed because "Firefox could not modify the needed file." Figuring it might be a file permissions issue, I thought I would try temporarily promoting the user account to an admin account, which I did. I then downloaded and tried to install no script again from the user (now upgraded to admin) account. I got the same message that the install failed because "Firefox could not modify the needed file."

Just as an experiment I tried installing the adblocker ad on for Firefox from the user account and it installed without a problem.

If I install noscript using an admin account, should it automatically be installed for all other accounts as well? Any ideas what file this would be that Firefox could not modify when I tried to install the noscript addon from an account other than the original admin account.

Thanks for any suggestions or tips to get around this issue.

[dhouwn]

You share the profile folder between those two accounts?

[therube]

Guessing ...

Uninstall NoScript (which you'll presumably have to do as Admin).

Install NoScript, as non-Admin.

See if NoScript doesn't work both ways after that.

If I install noscript using an admin account, should it automatically be installed for all other accounts as well?

No.
Two different concepts. One is a Windows issue, elevating to Admin, the other dealing with multiple FF Profiles.
If you Global installation an extension, it should be available to all Profiles.