completely unistall firefox 3.1 & reinstall ?

[smooth3006]

firefox seems so slow today for me, it takes 30 seconds to load web pages. i know it's not my internet because i ran a speed test and it works fine in my vista install.

i have a feeling it something to do with firefox. i know i can download the package from mozilla but how can i do a fresh clean install ? the file mozilla gives me is a tar.gz.

[Separ]

Try doing this in a terminal:

sudo apt-get purge firefox

and then

sudo apt-get install firefox

The purge will remove firefox completely, including config files so anything you have changed will be lost.

[scragar]

sudo apt-get install --reinstall firefox

?

[InfinityCircuit]

I would suspect something is wrong with your profiles. Try:

mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-old

This should revert you to the equivalent of a fresh install.

[smooth3006]

thanks guys ill try it, it's weird as i made no changes.

[JoneYee]

sudo apt-get install --reinstall firefox

?

maybe try

sudo aptitude purge firefox && sudo aptitude install firefox

[pi.boy.travis]

Wouldn't reinstalling Firefox be a bad thing to do, because lots of other Ubuntu components need Firefox and the Gecko rendering engine it provides?

[scragar]

ubuntu won't let you uninstall something if something else needs it without telling you first, that's part of the advantage of a good package manager.

[pi.boy.travis]

This is true. . . I still have my bad habits from the Windows days. . .

[smooth3006]

no i couldn't totally remove it at all, i just reset it back to default settings. still didn't help, it's gotta be my internet carrier or something ? im going to play around a bit in vista and see if i notice a problem too.