How do you uninstall applications from OS X?

I've been having problems with a couple of my applications, mainly Firefox (hangs, plus I prefer Safari anyway) and Office X (must be opened from the Applications folder and won't open by double-clicking on an Office document icon). I'd like to uninstall and then reinstall them, but I can't find any info anywhere (checked MS and Firefox sites as well as Apple OS X support site) on how to uninstall. (As you can tell I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to OS X.) Any help/advice would be appreciated!

Hi Catti,
Some applications have an uninstall option in the installer. You run the installer as if you were going to put the app on the drive and choose Uninstall instead.
For those that don't come with an uninstall program, you simply put the application in the trash. So put Firefox in the trash. Then press Command+F and enter "Firefox" as the search string to find any other pieces it created on the drive. For sure you'll find a .plist file (a preferences file) and maybe a couple of other small folders. Put those in the trash, also. That's it.
Office has its own uninstall application on the CD. Run that to remove all traces of Office. Don't worry about your e-mail database if you're using Entourage. It won't remove that. But make a copy of it to your desktop first just to be safe.

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