![]() There was excitement and anticipation, at every Mozilla's announcement, referring to the Firefox OS. Thus, it reached agreements in countries such as Uruguay, India, Bangladesh, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Poland, among others. Mozilla was aiming at emerging markets where smart phones were luxury goods. And thanks to a well optimized and light code, Firefox OS could run on low end mobile phones without problems. Not only Firefox OS, but Mozilla was committed to high quality game development with HTML5 (Unreal Engine, Monster Madness) and Javascript (asm.js), was betting big on WebRTC, as a new standard for online communication (bye bye Skype). The Mozilla Foundation had launched Firefox OS, and the whole entity (the foundation plus the Mozilla corporation, which was the one that managed the commercial links of the foundation), were aimed at making Firefox OS a top contender among the various mobile OSes that existed then. ![]() In 2013, Firefox was at the top of the world. First, let's look at the past of Firefox, precisely five years ago, when Firefox was surfing a wave of unprecedented success. But I'll get back to this subject in a moment. The first casualties were the add-ons, and if you had some particular addon, needed or used on a daily basis, not being able to use it anymore is very annoying. All these qualities are only superficial, since the "new" Firefox abandoned many features that were unique. However, I decided to play devil's advocate here, because the new Firefox did not surprise me that much, and despite being much faster, smaller and lighter, appearances can be deceiving. Our dear Chief Editor Paul Arnote wrote an article praising the qualities of the new Firefox, how it is better than it has ever been, and how many users are surprised and fascinated by the new Firefox Quantum. *It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.For Those Who Do Not Like The New Firefox *(64 bit Windows) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\" ![]() *(32 bit Windows) "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\" *Do NOT remove "personal data" when you uninstall your current Firefox version, because this will remove all profile folders and you lose personal data like bookmarks and passwords including data in profiles created by other Firefox versions. *Download the full Firefox installer and save the file to the desktop Read this answer in context □ 2 All Replies (1) ![]() Your bookmarks and other personal data are stored in the Firefox profile folder and won't be affected by an uninstall and (re)install, but make sure that "remove personal data" is NOT selected when you uninstall Firefox. It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.(64 bit Windows) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\".(32 bit Windows) "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\".Remove the Firefox program folder before installing that newly downloaded copy of the Firefox installer. Do NOT remove "personal data" when you uninstall your current Firefox version, because this will remove all profile folders and you lose personal data like bookmarks and passwords including data in profiles created by other Firefox versions.If possible uninstall your current Firefox version to cleanup the Windows registry and settings in security software. Download the full Firefox installer and save the file to the desktop.Do a clean reinstall and delete the Firefox program folder before (re)installing a fresh copy of the current Firefox release. ![]()
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