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Hierdie gesprek is in die argief. Vra asseblief 'n nuwe vraag as jy hulp nodig het.

Firefox corrupted I think - cannot remove from Mac as 'its open' Cannot force quit either, screws up system reboot too

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louisemurray
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I'd like to remove and reinstall but cannot force quit, or delete from Application as my Mac sees the programme as open. I cannot double click and open from application folder or the toolbar. on the toolbar there are two Firefox motifs, neither of which are responsive. Can anyone help? Please.

I'd like to remove and reinstall but cannot force quit, or delete from Application as my Mac sees the programme as open. I cannot double click and open from application folder or the toolbar. on the toolbar there are two Firefox motifs, neither of which are responsive. Can anyone help? Please.

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louisemurray
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Hi I still have this problem, appreciate that it has been the holiday season, but I could really use your help. Louise]

Scribe
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Hi, I'm not familiar with Mac, but since you haven't had any other replies I will try to offer some suggestions. There are a number of options in this article that may help you to stop Firefox.

When/if you stop it, try performing a Clean reinstall. This means you remove your Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. This process does not remove your Firefox profile data (such as bookmarks and passwords), since that information is stored in a different location.

To do a clean reinstall of Firefox, please follow these steps: Note: You might want to print these steps or view them in another browser.

  1. Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from mozilla.org (or choose the download for your operating system and language from this page) and save the setup file to your computer.
  2. After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (or open the Firefox menu New Fx Menu and click the close button Close 29).
  3. Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
    • Windows:
      • C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
    • Mac: Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
    • Linux: If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see Install Firefox on Linux. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the Firefox download page, simply remove the folder firefox in your home directory.
  4. Now, go ahead and reinstall Firefox:
    1. Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
    2. Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.

More information about reinstalling Firefox can be found here.

WARNING: Do not use a third party uninstaller as part of this process. Doing so could permanently delete your Firefox profile data, including but not limited to, extensions, cache, cookies, bookmarks, personal settings and saved passwords. These cannot be easily recovered unless they have been backed up to an external device! See Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles.

Please report back to say if this helped you!

Thank you.