On 9/21/2023 11:10 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
This has given me two FFs and screwed up my system.
How do I uninstall the little devil?
Have you installed Firefox from the Microsoft Store, as well as from a Mozilla "firefox installer.exe" download?
No, not to my recollection.
Supposing someone did that, how would they right the situation?
Ed
I'm not able to see any shards right now.
I suspect materials downloaded from the MicrosoftStore are
erased after completion of the install process.
The store philosophy is "download, if you need to refresh".
The win32 philisophy, was to look for a cached .msi file (anonymized),
if you needed to refresh. Windows kept a folder full of those. That's
why Programs and Features could have a Repair option.
[Picture]
https://i.postimg.cc/RCWnjJLC/two-firefox.gif
The Settings Wheel:Apps GUI allows removal. Deleting the named folder with goods in it, that might kill the manifest file. But it may not
remove the package info. And that could be inside an SQLITE file.
I had to use nfi.exe to find it. There are a couple journal files
next to it, with a similar root name. You don't need the journal files
to be able to read the contents. But if you were messing around, you
may want to remove the journals before bodging the .srd and putting it back.
I used Linux to get in here.
F:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\StateRepository-Machine.srd
After much fussing about...
INSERT INTO PackageIdentity VALUES(370,1,58,'Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection_4.17.8180.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe',NULL);
INSERT INTO PackageIdentity VALUES(371,1,58,'Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection_4.17.8180.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe',NULL);
INSERT INTO PackageIdentity VALUES(372,1,95,'Mozilla.Firefox_117.0.1.0_x64__n80bbvh6b1yt2',NULL); <=== MicrosoftStore Metro one
From Powershell, if the Settings "Apps" interface did not impress,
you should be able to use the PackageName, as part of a command to
remove a Metro App. That number on the end, stands for "Mozilla" and Thunderbird should have the same vendor string. The number itself
does not say "Firefox" as such.
Mozilla.Firefox_117.0.1.0_x64__n80bbvh6b1yt2
My Win32 Firefox is version 115. The MicrosoftStore one I installed is 117.
And that's how I can tell which one I'm dealing with. If they were
the same version, that would cause more anxiety.
Note that, they are sharing the "profiles.ini" file. I learned yesterday,
that if you install a second Firefox, it creates a new profile and
puts it in the profiles.ini.
firefox.exe -p # For the Win32 version, this would bring up Profile Manager
# and allow you to select the "right" profile for the job.
# You would select the "old" folder for the EXE in my test run.
# And select the "new" (empty) folder for the MS Store one.
# I can look at the dates of the Profile folders, to sort which one
# is which. At least today I can...
Starting the Metro one, and passing " -p " to it. Forget it!
You can't do that! No, they're not "functionally equivalent".
Paul
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