When our Mozilla Firefox browser becomes too slow, it is the moment when we should check which are the add-ons and extensions that we have been installing for a long time. It would seem completely unbelievable, but some of them can turn our internet browsing into something annoying and fruitless.
There are different methods, tips, and tricks that Mozilla offers to help you uninstall the add-ons from your Firefox browsers, although some of them do not work when malicious third-party developers have dedicated themselves to making their proposals (in most cases add-ons) reach the very bowels of the browser. In this article we will mention some alternatives that you could be using when uninstalling add-ons or extensions that you no longer want to use.
Uninstall Mozilla Firefox extensions manually
The first thing that is advised when uninstalling these extensions or add-ons from Mozilla Firefox is go to the folder or directory where they could be present; To achieve this, you just have to do the following:
- Open the Mozilla Firefox browser.
- Click on the button «Firefox»And go to«helps«.
- Once there, you must choose the option that says «troubleshooting information«.
With these simple steps that we have mentioned, you will have the opportunity to explore where extensions and add-ons are generally located in Mozilla Firefox. You just have to pay attention to the area that says «Basic Application Configuration«; there you will find a small button that says «Show Folder«, Which you must access by clicking on it.
A new file explorer window will open immediately, where there is another folder named «Extensions«; you just have to go to that place and start looking for the name of the add-on you want to delete. In most cases, this situation does not usually give good results if the installed plug-in has infiltrated deeper places in the browser as we have suggested above.
Return to factory state to Mozilla Firefox
If the plugin or extension that we are trying to remove does not appear in the directory we mentioned above, then ideally you should do a backup of everything that your Internet browser contains, being able to use for it the method that we mentioned in a certain moment with Browser Backupp.
After having made this backup we have to go back to the last browser tab that we opened previously, that is, the one in which the folder was shown; right there and at the top there is a small box, where in a highlighted way there is another button that says «Reset Firefox ...«.
By clicking on this button we will make our Internet browser return to the factory state, which means that any type of add-ons or extensions (also histories, dictionaries except for bookmarks) that we could not eliminate before under a manual mode.
Recover history without extensions in Mozilla Firefox
The method that we mentioned above comes to be an extreme option to adopt, this in the event that the supposed complement or extension is not eliminated under any form. In the same method above we mentioned the possibility of making a backup with a specific tool, the reader being able make use of any other that you like. We mention this due to the fact that in the process a few elements could have been lost that if we are of interest to continue maintaining, being for example cookies, history, passwords among a few other characteristics.
If we open Browser Backup and proceed to restore the previously made backup, there is a certain moment in the wizard we will see the list of everything that the tool will recover for us. Right there, the "Extensions" box will be activated, the same as at this time we should deactivate so that the tool, I recovered the other elements except for the latter.
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