Grandpaw,
Firefox has an excellent and very understandable user interface to clean the cache and history. I wonder why you should use any other program to do it. What's wrong with the thing built in?
It's always wise to backup your personal stuff before doing anything like an uninstall, even if you think it isn't necessary. It's so easy (in my version 0.8 Bookmarks>Manage Bookmarks>File>Export - later Import in your new version) that it just ain't worth the trouble to ask, in my opinion. Just do it. It won't harm at all.
Kees
All of a sudden, when I click to use Firefox as my browser, it never gets connected to any website. In the lower left it shows that it is waiting for a reply from the website, and the icon in the upper right shows it is running, but it never gets the website.
The only thing I can recall doing is that in Ccleaner, instead of using the default checks, I went to Applications and checked Firefox/Mozilla's Internet Chache and Internet History. (I also checked "Automplete Form History" but that is for IE.)
Rather than fool around for hours as I often do when trying to fix something, I want to just reinstall Firefox. I understand from the Firefox website that I first need to uninstall what I now have and then install the version just issued. If I do that, do I need to backup my Firefox favorites?
grandpaw

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