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In my registry under the Mozilla tab I have entries for all past Firefox downloads from 3.5.1 to 3.6.9. I am now using 4.0. Can I delete these older entries and why were they not deleted when updating .Thanks

In my registry under the Mozilla tab I have entries for all past Firefox downloads from 3.5.1 to 3.6.9. I am now using 4.0. Can I delete these older entries and why were they not deleted when updating .Thanks

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Yes, you can remove all those orphaned entries under the Uninstall and the Mozilla registry key and only keep the key for the version(s) that are still installed. It happens a lot that when you update Firefox that the updater doesn't remove the old entry, but only adds a new entry for the new version. If there is only one entry to the Firefox program folder but with a wrong version then leave that entry or edit it to reflect the currently installed version.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Mozilla Firefox (????)