History of Reset Firefox preferences to troubleshoot and fix problems

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Revision Status S Editor R Comment
Current   AliceWyman search summary, other minor edits
Approved M AliceWyman Solution 1: Refresh Firefox - removed templates, added description, link to KB article
Approved M Chris Ilias purge pre-fx35 content
Approved M AliceWyman Solution 1 separate headings, "Reset" {for not fx35} "Refresh" {for fx35} . Still need to update Template:resetsteps for fx35!
Reviewed M Swarnava Sengupta Added fx 35 support
Approved   Lan Dropped support for Firefox older than v13
Reviewed M user917725 update
Approved M AliceWyman updated link, added "updates"; changed "download actions" to "where to save file downloads" to avoid confusion.
Approved M AliceWyman You can also rename the prefs.js file instead of deleting it - see discussion
Approved   David Tenser Removing a charming its/it's confusion
Approved M Michael Verdi Solution 2 heading needs to be inside the for statement so it's not seen by Fx v <13
Approved M Michael Verdi Based on Jan's revision and incorporating suggestion in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-preferences-fix-problems/discuss/2462
Unreviewed   Jan. keep previous instructions for ff 2 to ff 12, fixed FOR version mismatch. prefs.js for ff15+
Approved M Michael Verdi Restoring previous version
Approved M Jan. fixed FOR version mismatch, replaced article with prefs.js
Approved M Michael Verdi removed line included in the note about what the reset does
Approved M Michael Verdi Included reset steps back to fx13
Approved M Michael Verdi replace instructions with reset for Fx 15
Approved M Michael Verdi New 160 character search summary
Approved M Swarnava Sengupta added the Share this article template
Approved   Tonnes typo
Approved M Michael Verdi New summary, added note about reset firefox, new intro (tried to clarify what this option is for)
Approved M AliceWyman minor edit to last revision
Unreviewed   AliceWyman reworded Intro and linked to "Preferences are not saved" troublehooting article.
Unreviewed   Chris Ilias make windows screenshot only display for windows users

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