Recent answers to I drive a Mac. The Firefox icon in my dock suddenly changed from the usual Firefox logo to looking like a notepad with a short ruler, pencil and pen; so why?https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/12395032018-11-05T21:31:55-08:00Something has changed the icon to something else,
or the Firefox file has been misidentified as some2018-11-05T21:31:55-08:00fredmcd-hotmailhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1239503#answer-1170235<p>Something has changed the icon to something else,
or the Firefox file has been misidentified as something else
</p><p>Let’s do a full clean re-install;
</p><p><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/" rel="nofollow">Download Firefox For All languages And Systems</a> {web link}
</p><p>Save the file. Then <strong>Close Firefox. </strong>
</p><p>Using your file browser, open the <strong>Programs Folder</strong> on your computer.
</p><p><strong>Windows: </strong> C:\Program Files
C:\Program Files (x86)
</p><p><strong>Mac: </strong> Open the <strong> "Applications" </strong> folder.
<a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-download-and-install-firefox-mac" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-download-and-install-firefox-mac</a>
</p><p><strong>Linux: </strong> Check your user manual.
If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package
manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it.
See Install Firefox on Linux;
<a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux</a>
</p><p>If you downloaded and installed the binary package
from the Firefox download page, simply remove the
folder Firefox in your home directory.
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/firefox#desktop" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.org/firefox#desktop</a>
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Look for, and remove any <strong>Mozilla</strong> or <strong>Firefox</strong> program folders.
Do not remove the <strong>Mozilla Thunderbird</strong> folder if there is one.
</p><p><strong>Do Not</strong> remove any profile folders.
</p><p>After rebooting the computer, run a registry scanner
if you have one. Then run the installer.
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If there is a problem, start your <strong>Computer</strong> in safe mode and try again.
</p><p><a href="http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Linux+Safe+Mode" rel="nofollow">http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Linux+Safe+Mode</a>
This shows how to Start all Computers in Safe Mode;
Free Online Encyclopedia
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