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I need to know how to delete a user.js file. Your profile folder contains a user.js file, which includes preferences that were not created by Firefox.

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I need to know how to delete a user.js file. I looked in my profile folder and have no idea what to look for. I also looked in the troubleshooting information and found this "Your profile folder contains a user.js file, which includes preferences that were not created by Firefox." please help me find this folder. I have windows 10

I need to know how to delete a user.js file. I looked in my profile folder and have no idea what to look for. I also looked in the troubleshooting information and found this "Your profile folder contains a user.js file, which includes preferences that were not created by Firefox." please help me find this folder. I have windows 10

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Open your Profile folder and then close Firefox. Right-click that user.js file and select Delete.

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You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder:

Windows hides some file extensions by default. Among them .html and .ini and .js and .txt and you may only see a file name without file extension. You can check the file extension (type) in the properties of the file in Windows Explorer via the right-click context menu.

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Open your Profile folder and then close Firefox. Right-click that user.js file and select Delete.