How to Completely Uninstall and Reinstall Firefox?
How Can I Completely Uninstall Firefox, Then Re-Install? My Brothers Firefox Icon Is Just Blank for Some Reason on the Unity Sidebar. It Launches but the Icon...
How can I completely uninstall Firefox, then re-install? My brothers Firefox icon is just blank for some reason on the Unity sidebar. It launches but the icon is completely blank nothing there. If I uninstall this for him and then re-install will it work? Please help. I want to get this fixed for him.
2 Answers
First try moving his profile data out of the way, it may be corrupted. One easy way to do it is to rename the .mozilla directory, on a terminal:
mv ~/.mozilla ~/mozilla-backup
When you restart Firefox it will rebuild a new profile.
If you want to completely wipe out and reinstall firefox, on the terminal do this:
sudo apt-get purge firefox firefox-globalmenu firefox-gnome-support
This will remove all traces of the Firefox system files. Then, to reinstall:
sudo apt-get install firefox firefox-globalmenu firefox-gnome-support
You can reinstall firefox with the following command:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall firefox
If that doesn't help, see
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