How to remove unwanted Popups from Mozilla Firefox
Unwanted pop ups in Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular browsers, hence there are malwares and ad wares targets for installing adware and other unwanted extensions in your Mozilla Firefox for making unwanted pop ups and advertisements.
Mozilla Firefox Options
If you’re seeing popup ads that won’t go away, or the homepage you set is gone, you may have unwanted software or malware installed on your computer. Following given are some steps you can take to get rid of this program and block similar ones from getting installed in the future.
Step 1. – Removing Popups from Mozilla Firefox
Clear browsing previous data
It is advised to clear the browsing data as a preliminary step to remove unwanted pop ups in the computer.
Deleting Firefox history
Follow the steps to clear browning data:
- Open Mozilla Firefox.
- Click on more options button
- Select Options
- Click on “Privacy”
- Click on clear browsing data
- Select “clear from the beginning” and click on clear
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Step 2. for Blocking Popups from Mozilla Firefox
Delete unwanted search engines
The unwanted pop up in Mozilla Firefox may also be caused due to fake search engines in the browsers.
Removing unwanted search engines
Follow the steps to remove fake search engines:
- Open Mozilla Firefox.
- Click on More option menu
- Select Options
- Select Search options.
- Delete the fake and unwanted search engines.
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Step 3.
Remove unwanted extensions
The unwanted and fake extensions in the Mozilla Firefox browser may redirect your each browser click to fake pages and advertisements. It may also make advertisement and unwanted/fake pop ups. It is recommended to remove unwanted extensions to make the browser safe and clean.
Removing unwanted add-ons
Follow the steps to remove unwanted extensions:
- Open Mozilla Firefox.
- Click on more options.
- Select Add-ons.
- Delete all unwanted add-ons
- Restart the browser
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Step 4.
Reset Mozilla Firefox
In some cases the above mentioned steps may not work as expected, those complex issues could only be fixed by Mozilla Firefox reset, which will restore the browser to the initial start point.
It is highly recommended to done in the presence of a certified technician for your data and bookmark safety.
Follow the steps to reset Mozilla Firefox:
- Export bookmarks
- Backup the saved passwords
- Backup the other browser data
- Open Help
Resetting Mozilla firefox
- Select “Troubleshooting”
Resetting Firefox
- Click on Refresh firefox
- Restart the browser.
- Check and verify the status once finished
If the above mentioned steps did not work on the issue, it seems to be more complex.
Controlling the unwanted popups from your Firefox browser is now easy. If you are not able to block the unwanted popups during the usage of Firefox, just contact the tech support team of Microsoft Fix Now.