Removal of Mozilla VPN from a MAC
I have VPN installed on my IMAC and except for slow startup and retries it works well. I used the backup disk from the IMAC to set up MAC laptop. This installed Mozilla VPN on the laptop. Now I can not access the internet from the laptop. I want to remove VPN from the laptop. How do I do this?
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I had a similar problem in that I had no internet connection if I stopped or tried to remove Mozilla VPN. At first I tried this method: https://osxdaily.com/2020/02/02/how-delete-vpn-mac/
That didn't work as there was no vpn profile in System Preferences>Network. Probably because I didn't at first try to uninstall it the right way. I then found a post on stackexchange that pointed in the right direction. Use it at your own discretion and risk:
Open Terminal and entered these commands (don't include the %):
First you change directory like this: % cd /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
The following command will remove three files with network settings:
% sudo rm NetworkInterfaces.plist preferences.plist com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
When it asks for a password, enter the password you use to open the mac, assuming that has admin rights. Restart the mac and now the vpn should be removed from the system settings. You should now be able to just move the Mozilla VPN app from Applications to Trash.
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I had a similar problem in that I had no internet connection if I stopped or tried to remove Mozilla VPN. At first I tried this method: https://osxdaily.com/2020/02/02/how-delete-vpn-mac/
That didn't work as there was no vpn profile in System Preferences>Network. Probably because I didn't at first try to uninstall it the right way. I then found a post on stackexchange that pointed in the right direction. Use it at your own discretion and risk:
Open Terminal and entered these commands (don't include the %):
First you change directory like this: % cd /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
The following command will remove three files with network settings:
% sudo rm NetworkInterfaces.plist preferences.plist com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
When it asks for a password, enter the password you use to open the mac, assuming that has admin rights. Restart the mac and now the vpn should be removed from the system settings. You should now be able to just move the Mozilla VPN app from Applications to Trash.
It's kind of ridiculous that I have to root around as root removing system configuration files that I have little to no idea about because someone put out some crap software that I just paid good money for and that has the minor bug of SHUTTING DOWN THE NETWORK INTERFACE when VPN is off essentially stranding your computer from the outside world. Jesus Christ people! This example above is apparently just one step in a larger process which involves removing some DNS entries or replacing them because of some bug in Big Sur: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1333203
That process just says to "remove VPN", which so far as I can tell is the step above, but who knows as the system configuration files I see that are dated today on my system are slightly different from the ones indicated to remove in his post. When you have a MAJOR bug, and I'm talking to you Mozilla, you might explain ALL the steps involved in one post in sufficient detail that we simple people like me with 30 years of Unix experience, can't easily get lost in the weeds.