Mozilla-firefox gone bonkers

I Don't know how it happend but my firefox went bonkers yesterday.
i can't realy explain what's wrong with it so i'll just post a picture of it.
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i already tried removing all mozilla related things with
pacman -Rnd mozilla mozilla-firefox mozilla-common
and reinstalling them, but to no avail.
Also tried with renaming the .mozilla-firefox dir as well as the .mozilla dir in my home dir.
also with little result. (apart from offcourse breaking my installed plugins. (the webdeveloper one)
does anyone know how i can fix this.
Epiphany is nice and all that, but as a webdeveloper i realy need all the extra's that are in firefox.

Xentac wrote:pacman -R mozilla-firefox
rm -rf /opt/mozilla-firefox
pacman -S mozilla-firefox
originally this din't work, but when also done with mozilla and mozilla-common and then removing anything that was still on the system that was from mozilla it did work.
thanks,

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