How to completely 'sudo uninstall' Firefox please

[jonfisher]

My Firefox browser keeps bugging out. I completely removed it with Synaptics, but that didn't help upon reinstall.
With the command line, what do I type into terminal to really completely uninstall it - uninstall everything associated with it so I can reinstall it - please.

I unserstand it is probably
sudo apt-get --purge remove package_name

but when typing "Firefox" for package_name, it doesn't work.... Must be another name?



michael@michael-HP-EliteDesk-800-G1-SFF:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove Firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package Firefox
michael@michael-HP-EliteDesk-800-G1-SFF:~$

[pantazi]

I used this:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/16758/removing-firefox-in-ubuntu-with-all-add-ons-like-it-never-existed

then installed Brave browser.

[ActionParsnip]

Lower case F. Linux is very case sensitive

[ActionParsnip]

sudo apt --purge remove firefox

If you want to remove your settings and you don't use Thunderbird for email (If you do then DON'T run this command), you can run:


rm -rf ~/.mozilla

Now, if you reinstall the browser, you will get a vanilla profile rather than the one from the files from your profile. Depends what you are trying to do.....

[ian-weisser]

How you remove Firefox currently depends upon your release of Ubuntu. In 22.04 and newer, Firefox is a Snap...so apt doesn't know anything about it.

[mIk3_08]

IF that is from snap please run the command below.

sudo snap remove firefox

[pantazi]

Isn't 'Thanks' part of forum etiquette these days?