Can you uninstall and completely remove Firefox

[Pretty Vacant]

Can you uninstall and completely remove Firefox without risking the system to break?
Is the proper way to do this via MXPI?
Meant is Firefox, Firefox esr has not been installed.

[vel178]

2 ways with it's language depencies is
sudo apt autoremove firefox

or seach for it in synaptic and mark it for complete removal, this gets the depencies as well. Browser shouldn't break the system as far as I am concerned.

[j2mcgreg]

Can you uninstall and completely remove Firefox without risking the system to break?
Is the proper way to do this via MXPI?
Meant is Firefox, Firefox esr has not been installed.

I would use Synaptic for this. Locate Firefox in Synaptic --> right click on Firefox and mark for complete removal. Click on Apply and follow the prompts.

[siamhie]

I open MXPI and under the Popular Applications tab > Browsers, remove Firefox. Then from the same section install LibreWolf.

[Jerry3904]

I usually keep FF b/c it works places that many others do not, but then install Vivaldi as my daily browser.

[Jerry3904]

Can you uninstall and completely remove Firefox without risking the system to break?

BTW: to generalize this question, it's easy to check by yourself for any package in a terminal ( ) by using the -s (=simulate):

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sudo apt purge <name> -s 

[Stevo]

If you want to get rid of its settings, cache, etc., you'll need to also remove the hidden .mozilla folder in your home directory. This will also wipe out saved Thunderbird stuff, though. One fast way is

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rm -rf ~/.mozilla

[chrispop99]

This will also wipe out saved Thunderbird stuff, though.

I thought Thunderbird has its own config file in home?

Chris

[Eadwine Rose]

Everything Thunderbird is in .thunderbird in /home, indeed.

[Pretty Vacant]

If you want to get rid of its settings, cache, etc., you'll need to also remove the hidden .mozilla folder in your home directory.

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rm -rf ~/.mozilla

I find this disturbing, 'Synaptic --> right click on Firefox and mark for complete removal' wont do that?!