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How do I create a firefox shortcut which opens firefox without addons or extraplugins in Windows?

when I double click that icon it should open firefox like it did when I installed firefox(without addons, plugins) but with my history, passwords etc..

when I double click that icon it should open firefox like it did when I installed firefox(without addons, plugins) but with my history, passwords etc..

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Are you talking about starting Firefox in Safe Mode? This disables all add-ons except plug-ins, and has other possibly unwanted side-effects, like disabling hardware acceleration.

You can also create a new profile, manually copy personal data into it, and disable all plug-ins.