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how can I reinstall firefox to the latest version ( 47.0.1 ) crome redirects to error 404

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firefox browser would not allow any navigation away from firefox home page : my service provider advised un-installing firefox and reinstalling mozilla firefox 47.0.1 I am re directed to error 404 page not found HELP !!!!!

firefox browser would not allow any navigation away from firefox home page : my service provider advised un-installing firefox and reinstalling mozilla firefox 47.0.1 I am re directed to error 404 page not found HELP !!!!!

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That is an odd sort of problem.

Try to see if you are able to do a Firefox Refresh first of all it may solve your problem

if that fails then try a reinstall, but you should do what we call a clean reinstall and deletew the Firefox Program files. Take care not to delete the Firefox profile if you have previously and recently had a working Firefox. Please post back to say how you gwet on.


Clean Reinstall

Certain Firefox problems can be solved by 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.