Can a new User Account be corrupted?

I recently had to do an erase and reinstall of the OS in order to clear up some chronic problems on my iMac. I reinstalled Firefox and my favorite Firefox plugin but discovered the plugin is now not working properly.
Thinking it might be the fault of me trying to manually restore some of my Firefox files from my Time Machine backup, I decided to create a new user account and test the app and plugin there. After installing the plugin in Firefox under the new user, the same problem occurred!
I suppose it could just be a problem with the plugin and a total coincidence that it started acting up at the same time I was restoring things from the erase and reinstall. On the other hand, is it possible that whatever corruption that might be keeping the plugin from working could also exist on the new user account?
I checked the reviews on the plugin site and found no complaints.

Have you tried uninstalling it and reinstalling? Of course back everything up first.

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