Restoring Mozilla Firefox Default Settings in Windows

Posted Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:02 by Arijit Sinha
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. As of April 2011, Firefox is the second most widely used browser with 30% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.

As we use the browser numbers of stuffs gets attached to it. So we may want to get rid of these additional tools. This can be done without reinstalling Firefox as shown below:-

Open Firefox in Safe Mode, from your programs menu or by typing “firefox -safe-mode” in Start->Run.

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ยทย  Choose what you want to be brought back to its original settings by checking one of the following options:

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  • Disable all add-ons: Disables all added themes and extensions.
  • Reset toolbars and controls: Removes any made toolbar customization.
  • Reset bookmarks to Firefox defaults: Replaces your bookmarks with the default bookmarks.
  • Reset all user preferences to Firefox defaults: Restores the default Options and preference settings and resets the default theme. It also changes back to default all the entries in the about:config page.
  • Restore default search engines: Adds back all of the default search engines (Google, Yahoo, eBay, Creative Commons, Answers.com, and Amazon.com) , without removing any added search engines.

Now everything should be back to default, as if you just installed a new fresh copy of Firefox.