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FireFox How to completely uninstall? there are multiple locations that are not updating.

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FireFox is in several locations. How to obliterate Mozilla FireFox from the Hard Drive, COMPLETELY REMOVE IT? Uninstall is not doing the job. Laptop win10 pro FireFox 69.0.3 crashes when launched even in safe mode. 1) After Uninstall / reinstall, Program Files\Mozilla fireFox\firefox.exe is still dated from several days ago and the install log has the current date. 2) Program Files (x86)\ Mozilla FireFox firefox32.exe

FireFox is in several locations. How to obliterate Mozilla FireFox from the Hard Drive, COMPLETELY REMOVE IT? Uninstall is not doing the job. Laptop win10 pro FireFox 69.0.3 crashes when launched even in safe mode. 1) After Uninstall / reinstall, Program Files\Mozilla fireFox\firefox.exe is still dated from several days ago and the install log has the current date. 2) Program Files (x86)\ Mozilla FireFox firefox32.exe

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To do a clean reinstall of Firefox, please follow these steps: Note: You might want to print these steps or view them in another browser.

  1. Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from mozilla.org (or choose the download for your operating system and language from this page) and save the setup file to your computer.
  2. After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (or open the Firefox menu New Fx Menu and click the close button Close 29).
  3. Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
    • Windows: (Note: Check both folders.)
      • C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
    • Mac: Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
    • Linux: If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see Install Firefox on Linux. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the Firefox download page, simply remove the folder firefox in your home directory.
  4. Now, go ahead and reinstall Firefox:
    1. Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
    2. Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.

More information about reinstalling Firefox can be found here.