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Mozilla firefox gives an option to reset it. Check the below images to ee how its done graphically;

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I need to make a script where this can be done through bash. Can someone tell me the command which can do this?

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Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

/usr/bin/firefox -safe-mode

and then click on Reset Firefox.

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This is what I want to do precisely... The things that follows after pressing "Reset Firefox", is what I want to accomplish. I don't want to manually click on "Reset Firefox". – linuxandunix Aug 6 '14 at 11:07
    
Why don't want to manually click on "Reset Firefox" if you don't mind me asking? – Mitch♦ Aug 6 '14 at 11:39
    
Because he wants to reset firefox after user logoff or daily. In both cases, it would be better to have pristine copy of .mozilla folder. – Barafu Albino Aug 6 '14 at 14:55
    
@BarafuAlbino If that's that case, then yes. – Mitch♦ Aug 6 '14 at 16:52
    
Hi Mitch, its as Barafu said. – linuxandunix Aug 7 '14 at 4:10
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Just delete its folder, which is ~/.mozilla. Beware: this will clean Thunderbird too.

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I wouldn't delete the folder, better rename it: mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_old – chaos Aug 6 '14 at 9:32
    
Better yet: ~/.mozilla/firefox – muru Aug 6 '14 at 10:01
    
If I move ~/.mozilla/firefox , won't I have to again import bookmarks. The "Reset Firefox" cleans the old data and restores all saved bookmarks and preferences. – linuxandunix Aug 6 '14 at 11:10
    
bookmarks should better be stored on sync account. Than you will enter sync credentials and get them all back. – Barafu Albino Aug 6 '14 at 14:53

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