[ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

[Simon Wears]

Your $USER folder IS /Rowan - $USER is a term for 'your username here'.

.mozilla is a hidden folder ( as is any folder beginning in a . ), so  
open up /home/Rowan and press ctrl + H, I think, to show all hidden  
folders. Press this key combo again to hide them.

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On 15 Mar 2009, at 12:30, Rowan Berkeley  
<rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I don't seem to have a /home/$USER/ folder. There's nothing in /home/
> except /Rowan/, and nothing in /Rowan/ except /examples/.
>
> I did see a folder called /Lost & Found/ but it disappeared when I  
> tried
> to open it, after telling me I didn't have permission to do so.
>
> On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +0000, mac wrote:
>> Sean Miller wrote:
>>> I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they?
>>>
>>> If so, then it presumably would be easy to ditch them... just an "rm
>>> -rf .mozilla" or whatever the directory is... next time Firefox  
>>> starts
>>> it can re-configure itself back to default.
>>
>> AFAIK, your whole profile for Firefox is in /home/$USER/.mozilla/ 
>> firefox/
>>
>> and has a name of the form 'xxxxxxxx.default'  where the x's are a
>> meaningless sequence of letters and numbers.
>>
>> If you close Firefox and delete the xxxxxxxx.default directory,  
>> Firefox
>> will create a new 'vanilla' profile when you restart it.  (Extensions
>> are stored in the particular profile they refer to, so they'll go.   
>> You
>> will, of course, lose any bookmarks and other personalisations -  
>> though
>> you can save the bookmarks.html file, and restore to your new  
>> profile.).
>>  Anyway, there's no need to reinstall the whole of Firefox if it's  
>> not
>> broken.  I'd be inclined to try deleting the profile first;  you can
>> always do a complete reinstall if it's really necessary.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> mac
>>
>
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