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Issues in Firefox - Missing Reset Firefox to it's Default State

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Got a few quirks with Firefox (font issues) after installing some add ons. Restarting disabling the add ons does not fix the issue.

Wanted to reset Firefox preferences. Went to "Help>Troubleshooting Information". It brought up a screen with all kinds of information on it, but there is no "reset" button in the upper right (or anywhere that I can see) on the page.

I running under Linux desktop (Fedora 17). The version of Firefox is 18.0.

Got a few quirks with Firefox (font issues) after installing some add ons. Restarting disabling the add ons does not fix the issue. Wanted to reset Firefox preferences. Went to "Help>Troubleshooting Information". It brought up a screen with all kinds of information on it, but there is no "reset" button in the upper right (or anywhere that I can see) on the page. I running under Linux desktop (Fedora 17). The version of Firefox is 18.0.

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Update to Firefox 18.0.1 and give a try...

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You only have the Reset button if you have started Firefox with the profile that is marked as Default=1 in the profiles.ini file.

You can delete the prefs.js file and possible numbered prefs-##.js files and a possible user.js file to reset all prefs to the default values.

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Can you attach a screenshot to show the font problems?

Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot.

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I saw that in my earlier searches (before I posted).

I'm not working with multiple profiles.

from my home directory ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini


[General] StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=jhn3pg5a.default Default=1


Only 1 profile defined and the default flag is set.

Should I be looking somewhere else as to where it's getting it's information from?

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Accidentally hit that the 18.1 upgrade solved the problem. Not sure if it will or need. I'm updating from Fedora's yum repositories and it hasn't hit there yet.

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Image attached. I was fooling with the add-on Theme Font and Size Changer which really helps with high resolution screens (1920x1080). What I noted though is some (and only some) of the buttons and text boxes took on a larger size as well. Resetting them in the tool and even disabling all add-ons does not fix the problem.