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title: "How hard is it to restore Firefox to its default settings?"  
description: "How hard is it to restore Firefox to its default settings?"  
author: "Lily Chitlangiya"  
published: 2022-02-10  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95658/how-hard-is-it-to-restore-firefox-to-its-default-settings  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["firefox", "mozilla firefox", "settings", "troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How hard is it to restore Firefox to its default settings?

How hard is it to [restore](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/239/how-to-back-up-and-restore-a-mysql-database) Firefox to its [default settings](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95596/how-do-i-reset-firefox-to-default-settings)?

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## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

![How hard is it to restore Firefox to its default settings?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/562fb000-5ea8-458a-9a82-b5b3bc9b75ef/images/805ca586-4fc2-4652-aa5e-207f5158d565.jpeg) **\**

- **Launch [Firefox](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95586/is-there-a-mozilla-firefox-api).**
- In the upper right corner of the Firefox window, click the hamburger menu. This brings up a dropdown menu with the majority of the browser options you may change without resorting to authorised browser hacks.
- Near the bottom of the screen**, click Help.**
- From the Help menu, select Troubleshooting Information.
- On the Troubleshooting Information screen, click Refresh Firefox in the top right corner.
- Mozilla will then notify you that you're about to uninstall all of your browser add-ons and revert to the default [settings](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/99336/how-can-i-configure-gmail-imap-settings). To put it another way, you're about to undo everything you've ever done in the browser. To continue, click Refresh Firefox.

**You'll see a success screen after Mozilla refreshes the browser. To continue using the browser in its default mode, click Let's Go.** \
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**Read More : [How do you remove Firefox as your default browser?](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95660/how-do-you-remove-firefox-as-your-default-browser)**


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