I cannot uninstall Firefox, either through Control Panel Add/Remove or by running helper.exe from Program Files.

Nothing happens when I click on REMOVE for Mozilla Firefox from the Add/Remove screen of Control Panel. I then tried to run helper.exe from the Mozilla Firefox folder in Program Files, but that wouldn't run either. Any suggestions?
== This happened ==
Just once or twice
== When I tried to uninstall Firefox

unistalled foxtab, however the window saying "want to add this pers. button to toolbar" no matter what I do I can't get it off , close firefox, remove or delete or get a new firefox download to replace it in the harddrive etc. Its locked up firefox and I have to use safari to access the web. how do I get this circular message etc. off ?

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You can go into Control Panel / Programs and Features / Turn Windows features on or off (In the left column). Uncheck Internet Explorer 11 and click OK. This will uninstall it. You can uninstall of install all of Windows features from there.
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