SOLVED: FF Install paths?

[candylovergirl]

Hello,

Newbie here

Can I know all the paths that FF use to install it in Windows 10 b.1903?

Thanks
camelia

[therube]

You can pretty much install wherever you want.

Default install, oh, suppose it depends on OS, & bitness, but either /Program Files/ or /Program Files (x86)/.


Profiles, likewise can pretty much be wherever you want.

Again, default locations are (where I would never want it ), http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder.

[candylovergirl]

You can pretty much install wherever you want.

Default install, oh, suppose it depends on OS, & bitness, but either /Program Files/ or /Program Files (x86)/.


Profiles, likewise can pretty much be wherever you want.

Again, default locations are (where I would never want it ), http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder.

Thank you very much,

I am looking for the following files but it seems some path changes and some .sqlite names changes also
I have check https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/re ... ld-profile
but everything is very different now

Where are they now? and which .sqlite names changed their names or they do not exist anymore in the current FF version?

Can you please help?

Kind Regards
Camelia

Files and their new location if they still exit that I am looking for:

Close Firefox and delete -

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<random profile id>\Cache

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<random profile id>\
cookies.sqlite
downloads.sqlite
formhistory.sqlite
places.sqlite
sessionstore.bak
sessionstore.js

[malliz]

So you want to open your profile and delete those files?
Did you try typing
about:profiles
into the address bar and hit enter? The one you want is Root Directory
Don't know how long ago Frank wrote that advice? Some file names have changed

[kerft]

If you delete places.sqlite, you will lose your history. Make a backup of all profiles before experimenting is usually best.

[Frank Lion]

Files and their new location if they still exit that I am looking for:

Put about:profiles in the addressbar and press Enter. All profile paths are then shown. The 'Root' profile is the one you want.

Close Firefox and del

That was a very old post - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p12105947 to a user with special requirements.

Ignore it (apart from my backing up advice there.)

Even when backed up, we ask that users rename unwanted files, not delete them. However, the user in that link insisted they wanted to delete them.

[candylovergirl]

So you want to open your profile and delete those files?
Did you try typing
about:profiles
into the address bar and hit enter? The one you want is Root Directory
Don't know how long ago Frank wrote that advice? Some file names have changed

Yes, I want to open my profile and delete those files
No, I haven not try typing about:profiles into the address bar and hit enter yet, but now I know how to access the Root Directory
Oh! Frank wrote that advice many years ago...

Thank you

If you delete places.sqlite, you will lose your history. Make a backup of all profiles before experimenting is usually best.

Back up done, ready to experiment

Thank you

Files and their new location if they still exit that I am looking for:

Put about:profiles in the addressbar and press Enter. All profile paths are then shown. The 'Root' profile is the one you want.

Close Firefox and del

That was a very old post - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p12105947 to a user with special requirements.

Ignore it (apart from my backing up advice there.)

Even when backed up, we ask that users rename unwanted files, not delete them. However, the user in that link insisted they wanted to delete them.

Understood

Thank you

[Brummelchen]

clearing history, cookies, forms and more
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/de ... ry-firefox

[candylovergirl]

clearing history, cookies, forms and more
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/de ... ry-firefox

Thank you!

Camelia

[dfoulkes]

Back up done, ready to experiment

I'm late here and as you can see I use the ESR version of Firefox...but that doesn't really matter in this case... Even though a backup was done (which can fail at times) it is best to 'experiment' with a playing around with it profile... and leave your main one alone...just my thoughts.
Creating a new Firefox profile on Windows - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
And,.... DON'T TOUCH THAT "Choose Folder..." BUTTON! ... unless you fully know all about it.

...and you can run that new profile at the same time as any of your other profiles by doing what is stated in this ...
Opening a new instance of your Mozilla application with another profile - MozillaZine Knowledge Base