12.04 LTS and deleting fire fox

[ABRIII]

I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with all the updates. I have Fire Fox for linux installed and am having problems loading it. It always loads Google and I cannot get to a fire fox menu to select that it not load google. I would like to delete fire fox and would like to know how to do it, then I can reload it again from the application downloads at Ubuntu.

Thanks for your help,

Aaron

[pierceTN]

I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with all the updates. I have Fire Fox for linux installed and am having problems loading it. It always loads Google and I cannot get to a fire fox menu to select that it not load google. I would like to delete fire fox and would like to know how to do it, then I can reload it again from the application downloads at Ubuntu.

Thanks for your help,

Aaron

in terminal:

yum remove firefox

then to reinstall just do "yum install firefox"

(also if you do not have yum installed: "sudo apt-get install yum")

-Pierce

[drmrgd]

yum is not an Ubuntu package. I believe that's Fedora.

Before you completely purge it, you can try to move the profile folder that holds all of those settings. Look for a file in your home directory called .mozilla, and rename it as a backup:


sudo mv ~/.mozilla .mozilla.bak

Then when you relaunch Firefox, it will make a new profile that should be blank.


If still want to completely purge Firefox, then you can run:


sudo apt-get purge firefox