If you see the old profile name you may not have to do anything more except verifying the current settings and deleting the extra unused profiles. If you have your still have original first installation you can verify if you will need restore that older working profile by opening Firefox by going in to the Help menu (Alt+H) and look in More Troubleshooting Information. You may be able to simply delete that newer standard user install in AppData\Local. (If you have panicked and uninstalled every Firefox instance, install Firefox again.) This may still be helpful for you now and future people who find this topic:Īfter testing Mozilla Firefox setup (Firefox Installer.exe) will now install Firefox to “*\Users\(replace this with your User account name)\AppData\Local\Mozilla Firefox” if you decline to install as Administrator. BUT upon opening Ffox, says “looks like you reinstalled Ffox, want to refesh?” Control panel>programs and features here shows only one Ffox install and Mozilla maint service.Īny way to figure out which to uninstall? Anyway out of this mess and rid system of this crud, maintain User profile vs having to uninstall/reinstall and reconfig? New to Macrium Reflect, have never had to restore, last image was May 1. * Note in checking Admin account, there is only one Ffox icon in Start menu. ![]() (which do I uninstall? Don’t want to lose my current/ongoing secure profile) One has Ffox icon, one simply windows generic Ffox. User Ctrl Panel>programs & features shows 2 Ffox installs, no timestamp beside, same date. Windows Settings>Apps & Features shows only 1 Ffox now. BUT still 2 Ffox icons in User Start Menu. Result: User Ffox desktop icon goes to correct Ark profile. Deleted new profile via FFox profile manager. ![]() In USER acct: 2nd new, non-default profile STILL present in ‘Roaming’ folder. created a post uninstall restore point via Admin. That removed the extra Ffox program listed there in Settings, but NOT desktop icon, nor 2nd Ffox icon in Start menu, nor the “new” profile (non-default)Ĥ. Uninstalled “new” one, as it easily showed time of the “new” install. via user my Ark ffox profile, downloaded and ran ‘firefox.exe’, it applied and worked.ģ. Backed up User Ark orig profile folder (was on latest 99 ver).ģ. I want to keep it as it is my arkenfox one.*ġ. * To note my previous user ark profile still works. It installed another version & profile, another desktop icon, another Ffox in start menu in User? Yet Ffox installed itself in bground anyway? ![]() (Never understood that as Ffox was orig installed via User account)ĭownloaded firefox 100.exe (vs just firefox.exe!).Ĭlicked on firefox Setup 100.0.exe by accident, Admin pswd prompt popped up, realized my error, hit the ‘x’ to cancel out, did not enter pswd nor accept/decline. Went to the offered update link, as only admin account offers ‘updating’ vs user needs ‘download’. 100 from USER acct where it was initially installed. Uninstalling Firefox does not remove any user data such as bookmarks, history, passwords and cookies.Didn’t think this disaster would be my 1st post
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