Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Completely Uninstalling the mozilla firefox from ubuntu

Hi All,

To uninstall the mozilla firefox from the ubuntu machine just follow the instructions. Its all just easy to remove.

1. Removing via synaptic package manager

Go to System=>Administration=>Synaptic Package Manager

Search as firefox if that returns any installed packages of firefox just right click and choose completely remove  and the click apply. Then the firefox package will completely get uninstalled.

2.Uninstalling via Teriminal


$ sudo apt-get purge firefox


3. Removing temp files of firefox


After uninstalling firefox you have to remove the temp files of firefox for that just Run


$ sudo rm -rf /home/<user>/.firefox /home/<user>/.macromedia  /home/<user>/.adobe /etc/firefox/ /usr/lib/firefox/


Just restart the system you will get firefox cleared.


To get older versions of firefox just follow the link.


ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases


Thanks,
Ramanavel Selvaraj.

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