Easy Instruction of Completely Uninstall FireFox Aurora From Your Laptop/Desktop
Aurora is the newest version of FireFox web browser which comes with innovative features such as Preliminary native PDF support, SPDY networking protocol v3 support, improve memory leaks and more. Though FireFox Aurora brings us great new features, there are still a few bugs issues in FireFox Aurora, in case you are not satisfy with FireFox Aurora, here is the instruction to help you completely uninstall it.
Uninstall FireFox Aurora manually.
- Close FireFox Aurora if it is open.
- Click the Windows Start button at the bottom left.
- Click Control Panel and then select Add/Remove program.
- You can see FireFox Aurora is listed inside, select to highlight it.
- Click the “Remove” button on the right side.
- Click Next button in the pop-up wizard window.
- In the next appeared window, click the check box of “Remove my Aurora personal data and customizations” and then click Uninstall button to start.
- Uninstall is in progress.
- After the uninstall process complete, click Finish button.
Remove FireFox Aurora registry leftovers
Even though you have successfully uninstalled FireFox Aurora by using Add/Remove program, there are still some data left in the Windows registry, those registry files were created when you installed Aurora, but only part of them can be removed along with un-installation, you need to delete the rest of them manually by using the Registry Editor. Here are two screenshots for you to better understand what’s registry leftovers
FireFox Aurora registry data (after installation)
FireFox Aurora registry leftovers (after removal)
As there are thousands of registry keys stored in the registry, for beginner who are not familiar with the registry operation, the mission of deleting registry leftovers can be a little bit complicated, in order to prevent problems that caused by mistaken operation, it is suggested to backup the whole registry data first before you start.
Steps to backup registry
- Go to Start > Run > Type in regedit and hit OK to open Registry Editor.
- Click File menu and click Export.
- Click “All” in the export range section.
- Select a location to store the backup file (not recommended to store in system drive).
- Customize the backup name and the click Save button.
Steps to delete registry leftovers
- Open registry editor.
- Navigate the registry key branch on the left side by using the “+” sign to locate the registry keys showed in the second screenshot image above.
- Right click on the registry key and select Delete option
- Restart your computer.
FireFox Aurora automatic uninstall solution
“What if errors show up during the removal? What can I do?”, there are times you just can perform the removal of FireFox Aurora as you encounter strange error that stop you from doing so, this uninstall problem may caused by various factors such as incomplete installation, file damage or corruption etc, for situations like that, you can use professional uninstall tool like Max Uninstaller to help you out, it is also recommended for average computer users as it can definitely save your time and energy.
Video demonstration of How Max Uninstaller help you to uninstall FireFox Aurora completely
Step 1: Download Max Uninstaller here, install it in your computer.
Step 2:Open Max Uninstaller, select FireFox Aurora in the right hand list, then click “Run Analysis”
Step 3: After all program files/folders and associated registry entries are scanned out. Click “Complete Uninstall” to start the FireFox Aurora removal. Click “Yes” to confirm the action.
Step 4: Click “No” in the pop-up to restart your computer later. Click “Scan Leftovers”, and Max Uninstaller will conduct a full scan on your computer for program leftover.
Step 5: After the scan finish, click “Delete Leftovers” and “Yes” button to thoroughly remove all the leftovers.
Step 6: Click OK button in the appeared message to finish the removal of FireFox Aurora.
If you gone through the above steps, FireFox Aurora should have been removed from your computer with no tracks.
How to fix Firefox Aurora cannot be started problem
Firefox Aurora browser can crash or become corrupted sometimes and following up a error message will pop-up telling you that something wrong with application.ini, after that, users will be unable to start Firefox Aurora. If you encounter similar problem, you may need to do a reinstallation to get the problem fixed.
- Download a new copy of Firefox Aurora setup file from Firefox official website
- Go to Add/Remove program or use Max Uninstaller to uninstall Firefox Aurora from your computer.
- Remember to leave personal data and settings when you perform the uninstall
- Go to the drive where you install Aurora and delete its folder, this installation folder is usually the cause of installation failure, your bookmarks and other profile data are not stored in this folder so you don’t have to worry about it.
- Open the downloaded setup file of Firefox Aurora and reinstall it again.
- Now you should be able to run Firefox Aurora with no difficulty.
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