The latest Firefox beta contains a feature that has been on the Mozilla support team’s to-do list for, well, “forever.” The “Reset Firefox” option is intended to help users avoid troubleshooting headaches and will be particularly handy when nothing else seems to work. What’s more, you can reset the browser without sacrificing your personal data with this one-click option. Hit the jump to find out how.
According to Mozilla’s Michael Verdi, the realization that not everybody possesses the time and expertise necessary “to identify the exact cause of the problem and just fix that” is what prompted the non-profit to develop this feature.
“So the support team worked with product and engineering to create the Reset Firefox feature,” he wrote in a recent blog post. “The first implementation of this is a button on the Troubleshooting Information page (about:support). What is [sic] does is create a new profile and migrate your bookmarks, passwords, cookies and form data. Everything else gets set to the defaults.”
However, please note that at the moment this feature only works with the default profile, and saves nothing else except the bookmarks, passwords, cookies and form data associated with that profile. If you’re using a Nightly or an Aurora build of Firefox, the reset feature may not work for you.
Firefox 13 will graduate to the stable channel on June 5, 2012, as per Mozilla's (rapid) release schedule.
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Sty
May 21, 2012 at 12:31pm
I'm kind of surprised that this wasn't around before. All browsers should have this.
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May 21, 2012 at 4:40am
Handy option for people who can't be bothered with getting a different web browser.
I don't see any other web browser that is so screwed up as to need a stinkin reset button.
Am I wrong?
OCFRED
May 20, 2012 at 11:17pm
Needs it, last few versions have gotten that frustrating (like some other FOSS projects lately).
BobbyPhoenix
May 20, 2012 at 4:36pm
As of right now 5/20/2012 Beta is 13, and that has it, and that is what he says in the title and video. He didn't mention nightly at all.
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I Jedi
May 20, 2012 at 6:17am
This looks like a nifty and handy feature, especially if people who aren't as technical and need a quick and easy solution. I like it.
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