uninstalling firefox

[hunter1234]

how do i uninstall firefox and completely remove all of the files that it created?

[insanekiwi]

control panel->software->unistall firefox

then go and also delete user data\mozilla\firefox (that's where your profile is).

done.

[jymi]

Run UninstallFirefox.exe

Then go into C:\Documents and Settings\[Your Username]\Application Data and delete folders "Mozilla" & "Phoenix"

Delete C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox

I think there are more folders you delete but thtose are the only ones I remember

[kjordan2001]

Apparently people don't pay attention which forums they're in when they respond :rolleyes:

How did you install it?

Source:

cd location/of/firefox/source

make uninstall

Binary Installer:

I think it might have a way to uninstall it if you run it again. Or it might have installed it in your local folder. Delete ~/.mozilla/firefox too (I think that's the profile folder). Might just be .firefox though.

[hunter1234]

  kjordan2001 said:

Apparently people don't pay attention which forums they're in when they respond :rolleyes:

How did you install it?

Source:

cd location/of/firefox/source

make uninstall

Binary Installer:

I think it might have a way to uninstall it if you run it again. Or it might have installed it in your local folder. Delete ~/.mozilla/firefox too (I think that's the profile folder). Might just be .firefox though.

thank you it works. although it didn't fix what i thought it would do. the problem that caused me to do a full uninstallation is that whenever i have firefox running, and i click on a link in gaim it launches the link in firefox but it asks me to choose a profile. i don't know how to stop the profile window from popping up everytime i launch a link. do you know how to fix this?

[FireRabbit]

Install the very latest firefox using the installer as root to /opt/firefox/.

It should create a shellscript called firefox at /usr/bin/firefox. This is a shellscript, if you at it in a text editor...

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/opt/firefox"
FIREBIRD_PATH="/opt/firefox"

if [ -z "`/bin/ps x | /bin/grep \".*[0-9] ${FIREBIRD_PATH}/firefox-bin\"`" ]; then
    # No MozillaFirebird running
    ${FIREBIRD_PATH}/firefox $@
else
    # MozillaFirebird running - open a new window
    ${FIREBIRD_PATH}/firefox -a firefox -remote "openURL($@ ,new-tab)"
    echo $?
fi

We can see that it checks the proccess list (ps) to see if firefox is running and if it is it uses the mozilla remote protocol to tell it to open the url in a new tab.

This API changed from 0.8 to 0.9 so if that's when this stopped working, that's why. Preveously you didn't need the "-a firefox".

[hunter1234]

  FireRabbit said:

Install the very latest firefox using the installer as root to /opt/firefox/.

It should create a shellscript called firefox at /usr/bin/firefox. This is a shellscript, if you at it in a text editor...

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/opt/firefox"
FIREBIRD_PATH="/opt/firefox"

if [ -z "`/bin/ps x | /bin/grep \".*[0-9] ${FIREBIRD_PATH}/firefox-bin\"`" ]; then
    # No MozillaFirebird running
    ${FIREBIRD_PATH}/firefox $@
else
    # MozillaFirebird running - open a new window
    ${FIREBIRD_PATH}/firefox -a firefox -remote "openURL($@ ,new-tab)"
    echo $?
fi

We can see that it checks the proccess list (ps) to see if firefox is running and if it is it uses the mozilla remote protocol to tell it to open the url in a new tab.

This API changed from 0.8 to 0.9 so if that's when this stopped working, that's why. Preveously you didn't need the "-a firefox".

hmm so do i add this current code to the existing firefox script? or do i replace all of its content with this code?

[FireRabbit]

Replace it, and make sure the paths (MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME and FIREBIRD_PATH) are both correct.