How to reset Google Chrome and Firefox browsers in their default state
Browsers / / December 19, 2019
Modern browser have long outgrown the framework of the program designed for simple display of web pages and become a multi-processor, able to work with office documents, display videos and play music, games and entertain us much, much more. For more features, hidden in the default browser, each user can add personally wanted him to function with the help of a huge number of extensions available. Sometimes, however, this complex software tools can start to act up and depressed. The reason may be incompatible with one another extension or settings you have made. In any case, we must somehow restore their browser to its original operating state, preferably without reinstalling.
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Members ognelisa have long forgotten are the days when their browser podvisal from a large number of tabs on the terrible working flush or curves extensions. Today, Firefox is not inferior, and perhaps superior to the stability of its main competitors. However, if you somehow still managed to disrupt the normal operation of the program, then try the following.
First, try restarting Firefox c disabled extensions. To do this, in the main application menu, find a submenu reference and there, select Restart with disabled additions ...
If this does not work, it can only reset the browser settings to the defaults. To do this in the same menu reference tap Information to solve problems. This opens a new page that contains a lot of useful technical information. To reset the browser to its original condition press the appropriate button at the top of this page.
This will remove the following data: extensions and themes, the list of tabs, windows and tab groups, settings individual sites, search services, download history, custom certificates, MIME plug-ins, custom panels and styles. However, your bookmarks, history, passwords and form data will remain intact.
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In that case, if you suspect that the cause of failures in the browser has become one of the extensions installed, you can launch Chrome in its purest form with a special label. To do this, create a Google Chrome shortcut on your desktop, in which the properties of an option chrome.exe -disable-extensions.
If this does not help, you should use the new feature, which appeared in the latest version of the program and reset to the default values. To do this, go to the page nastroyek Chrome and click at the bottom on the link to display the additional options. After that squandered even to the end and see the reset button.
This action will result in the following changes:
- Restored default search engine.
- Home and start page will be changed to default.
- Pinned tabs will be removed. Content settings for individual sites will be cleared.
- Cookies and data for different sites will be removed.
- Extensions and Themes will be disabled, but not deleted.
Thus, you can easily restore your browser in almost the same form in which it was immediately after installation and thereby get rid of the bugs, freezes and other problems, accumulated during operation programs.