How to delete and create a new firefox profile from TTY1?
2 Answers
To delete all Firefox settings type:
mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.backup
in a terminal. On next startup Firefox will create a new ~/.mozilla
directory for a new session with default settings.
To restore your settings type:
mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.newbackup
mv ~/.mozilla.backup ~/.mozilla
This way you can create a variety of settings to restore when needed.
WARNING: This will delete everything in the Firefox config - there is no undo.
With that out of the way, to do that, you can run the following in the terminal.
rm -rf ~/.mozilla
rm -rf ~/.cache/mozilla
This will delete local settings and cache, including the extensions.
EDIT: Thanks to one of the comments, there is a way to backup the firefox config. To do that, follow the line below instead.
cd ~/.mozilla && mkdir backup && cp -r ./extensions ./backup && cp -r ./firefox* ./backup && rm -rf ./firefox* ./extensions
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1To have some "undo" it's possible to just rename the directory to some other, so it can be undone later, if it's needed.– LGBMar 29, 2011 at 14:32
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1When using
rm
with ther
flag, especially when also using thef
flag, and especially when providing advice that might be followed by novice users, I recommend avoiding commands that will wipe out the whole home directory if an accidental space is added. In this situation, you can just delete the.mozilla
folder along with its contents, by runningrm -r .mozilla
. Aug 14, 2012 at 9:27