I lost Firefox after the last update. Am totally lost. Using Pale Moon which seems a little shaky too. Please help, I have no idea what to do and need step by step help.
What do you mean by losing Firefox?
It seems @biddie is unable to locate the shortcut for whatever reason. Try searching for firefox with pacman. This ought to at least tell you if it’s installed or not.
Run:
pacman -Ss firefox
from the terminal. See what’s the output. Mine is quite long (and I don’t even have it installed.):
extra/firefox 84.0.2-0.1
Standalone web browser from mozilla.org
extra/firefox-i18n-ach 84.0.2-0.1
Acholi language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-af 84.0.2-0.1
Afrikaans language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-an 84.0.2-0.1
Aragonese language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ar 84.0.2-0.1
Arabic language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ast 84.0.2-0.1
Asturian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-az 84.0.2-0.1
Azerbaijani language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-be 84.0.2-0.1
Belarusian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-bg 84.0.2-0.1
Bulgarian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-bn 84.0.2-0.1
Bengali language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-br 84.0.2-0.1
Breton language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-bs 84.0.2-0.1
Bosnian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ca 84.0.2-0.1
Catalan language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ca-valencia 84.0.2-0.1
Catalan (Valencian) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-cak 84.0.2-0.1
Maya Kaqchikel language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-cs 84.0.2-0.1
Czech language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-cy 84.0.2-0.1
Welsh language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-da 84.0.2-0.1
Danish language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-de 84.0.2-0.1
German language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-dsb 84.0.2-0.1
Lower Sorbian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-el 84.0.2-0.1
Greek language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-en-ca 84.0.2-0.1
English (Canadian) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-en-gb 84.0.2-0.1
English (British) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-en-us 84.0.2-0.1
English (US) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-eo 84.0.2-0.1
Esperanto language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-es-ar 84.0.2-0.1
Spanish (Argentina) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-es-cl 84.0.2-0.1
Spanish (Chile) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-es-es 84.0.2-0.1
Spanish (Spain) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-es-mx 84.0.2-0.1
Spanish (Mexico) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-et 84.0.2-0.1
Estonian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-eu 84.0.2-0.1
Basque language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-fa 84.0.2-0.1
Persian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ff 84.0.2-0.1
Fulah language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-fi 84.0.2-0.1
Finnish language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-fr 84.0.2-0.1
French language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-fy-nl 84.0.2-0.1
Frisian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ga-ie 84.0.2-0.1
Irish language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-gd 84.0.2-0.1
Gaelic (Scotland) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-gl 84.0.2-0.1
Galician language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-gn 84.0.2-0.1
Guarani language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-gu-in 84.0.2-0.1
Gujarati (India) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-he 84.0.2-0.1
Hebrew language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-hi-in 84.0.2-0.1
Hindi (India) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-hr 84.0.2-0.1
Croatian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-hsb 84.0.2-0.1
Upper Sorbian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-hu 84.0.2-0.1
Hungarian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-hy-am 84.0.2-0.1
Armenian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ia 84.0.2-0.1
Interlingua language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-id 84.0.2-0.1
Indonesian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-is 84.0.2-0.1
Icelandic language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-it 84.0.2-0.1
Italian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ja 84.0.2-0.1
Japanese language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ka 84.0.2-0.1
Georgian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-kab 84.0.2-0.1
Kabyle language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-kk 84.0.2-0.1
Kazakh language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-km 84.0.2-0.1
Khmer language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-kn 84.0.2-0.1
Kannada language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ko 84.0.2-0.1
Korean language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-lij 84.0.2-0.1
Ligurian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-lt 84.0.2-0.1
Lithuanian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-lv 84.0.2-0.1
Latvian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-mk 84.0.2-0.1
Macedonian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-mr 84.0.2-0.1
Marathi language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ms 84.0.2-0.1
Malay language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-my 84.0.2-0.1
Burmese language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-nb-no 84.0.2-0.1
Norwegian (Bokmål) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ne-np 84.0.2-0.1
Nepali language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-nl 84.0.2-0.1
Dutch language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-nn-no 84.0.2-0.1
Norwegian (Nynorsk) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-oc 84.0.2-0.1
Occitan language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-pa-in 84.0.2-0.1
Punjabi (India) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-pl 84.0.2-0.1
Polish language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-pt-br 84.0.2-0.1
Portuguese (Brazilian) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-pt-pt 84.0.2-0.1
Portuguese (Portugal) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-rm 84.0.2-0.1
Romansh language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ro 84.0.2-0.1
Romanian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ru 84.0.2-0.1
Russian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-si 84.0.2-0.1
Sinhala language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-sk 84.0.2-0.1
Slovak language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-sl 84.0.2-0.1
Slovenian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-son 84.0.2-0.1
Songhai language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-sq 84.0.2-0.1
Albanian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-sr 84.0.2-0.1
Serbian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-sv-se 84.0.2-0.1
Swedish language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ta 84.0.2-0.1
Tamil language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-te 84.0.2-0.1
Telugu language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-th 84.0.2-0.1
Thai language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-tl 84.0.2-0.1
Tagalog language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-tr 84.0.2-0.1
Turkish language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-trs 84.0.2-0.1
Chicahuaxtla Triqui language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-uk 84.0.2-0.1
Ukrainian language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-ur 84.0.2-0.1
Urdu language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-uz 84.0.2-0.1
Uzbek language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-vi 84.0.2-0.1
Vietnamese language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-xh 84.0.2-0.1
Xhosa language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-zh-cn 84.0.2-0.1
Chinese (Simplified) language pack for Firefox
extra/firefox-i18n-zh-tw 84.0.2-0.1
Chinese (Traditional) language pack for Firefox
community/bluegriffon 3.1-11
The next-generation Web Editor based on the rendering engine of Firefox
community/browserpass-firefox 3.7.1-2 (firefox-addons)
Firefox extension for Browserpass, browser extension for zx2c4's pass (password manager)
community/firefox-adblock-plus 3.10.1-1 (firefox-addons)
Extension for firefox which block ads and banners
community/firefox-dark-reader 4.9.26-1 (firefox-addons)
Inverts brightness of web pages and aims to reduce eyestrain while browsing the web
community/firefox-decentraleyes 2.0.15-2 (firefox-addons)
Local emulation of Content Delivery Networks
community/firefox-developer-edition 85.0b4-1 [installed]
Developer Edition of the popular Firefox web browser
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ach 85.0b4-1
Acholi language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-af 85.0b4-1
Afrikaans language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-an 85.0b4-1
Aragonese language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ar 85.0b4-1
Arabic language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ast 85.0b4-1
Asturian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-az 85.0b4-1
Azerbaijani language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-be 85.0b4-1
Belarusian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-bg 85.0b4-1
Bulgarian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-bn 85.0b4-1
Bengali language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-br 85.0b4-1
Breton language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-bs 85.0b4-1
Bosnian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ca 85.0b4-1
Catalan language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ca-valencia 85.0b4-1
Catalan (Valencian) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-cak 85.0b4-1
Maya Kaqchikel language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-cs 85.0b4-1
Czech language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-cy 85.0b4-1
Welsh language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-da 85.0b4-1
Danish language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-de 85.0b4-1
German language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-dsb 85.0b4-1
Lower Sorbian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-el 85.0b4-1
Greek language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-en-ca 85.0b4-1
English (Canada) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-en-gb 85.0b4-1
English (British) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-en-us 85.0b4-1
English (American) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-eo 85.0b4-1
Esperanto language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-es-ar 85.0b4-1
Spanish (Argentina) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-es-cl 85.0b4-1
Spanish (Chile) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-es-es 85.0b4-1
Spanish (Spain) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-es-mx 85.0b4-1
Spanish (Mexico) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-et 85.0b4-1
Estonian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-eu 85.0b4-1
Basque language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-fa 85.0b4-1
Persian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ff 85.0b4-1
Fulah language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-fi 85.0b4-1
Finnish language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-fr 85.0b4-1
French language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-fy-nl 85.0b4-1
Frisian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ga-ie 85.0b4-1
Irish language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-gd 85.0b4-1
Gaelic (Scotland) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-gl 85.0b4-1
Galician language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-gn 85.0b4-1
Guarani language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-gu-in 85.0b4-1
Gujarati (India) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-he 85.0b4-1
Hebrew language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-hi-in 85.0b4-1
Hindi (India) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-hr 85.0b4-1
Croatian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-hsb 85.0b4-1
Upper Sorbian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-hu 85.0b4-1
Hungarian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-hy-am 85.0b4-1
Armenian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ia 85.0b4-1
Interlingua language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-id 85.0b4-1
Indonesian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-is 85.0b4-1
Icelandic language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-it 85.0b4-1
Italian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ja 85.0b4-1
Japanese language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ka 85.0b4-1
Georgian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-kab 85.0b4-1
Kabyle language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-kk 85.0b4-1
Kazakh language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-km 85.0b4-1
Khmer language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-kn 85.0b4-1
Kannada language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ko 85.0b4-1
Korean language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-lij 85.0b4-1
Ligurian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-lt 85.0b4-1
Lithuanian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-lv 85.0b4-1
Latvian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-mk 85.0b4-1
Macedonian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-mr 85.0b4-1
Marathi language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ms 85.0b4-1
Malay language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-my 85.0b4-1
Burmese language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-nb-no 85.0b4-1
Norwegian (Bokmål) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ne-np 85.0b4-1
Nepali language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-nl 85.0b4-1
Dutch language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-nn-no 85.0b4-1
Norwegian (Nynorsk) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-oc 85.0b4-1
Occitan language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-pa-in 85.0b4-1
Punjabi (India) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-pl 85.0b4-1
Polish language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-pt-br 85.0b4-1
Portuguese (Brazilian) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-pt-pt 85.0b4-1
Portuguese (Portugal) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-rm 85.0b4-1
Romansh language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ro 85.0b4-1
Romanian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ru 85.0b4-1
Russian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-si 85.0b4-1
Sinhala language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-sk 85.0b4-1
Slovak language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-sl 85.0b4-1
Slovenian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-son 85.0b4-1
Songhai language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-sq 85.0b4-1
Albanian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-sr 85.0b4-1
Serbian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-sv-se 85.0b4-1
Swedish language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ta 85.0b4-1
Tamil language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-te 85.0b4-1
Telugu language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-th 85.0b4-1
Thai language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-tl 85.0b4-1
Tagalog language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-tr 85.0b4-1
Turkish language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-trs 85.0b4-1
Triqui language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-uk 85.0b4-1
Ukrainian language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-ur 85.0b4-1
Urdu language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-uz 85.0b4-1
Uzbek language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-vi 85.0b4-1
Vietnamese language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-xh 85.0b4-1
Xhosa language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-zh-cn 85.0b4-1
Chinese (Simplified) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-developer-edition-i18n-zh-tw 85.0b4-1
Chinese (Traditional) language pack for Firefox Developer Edition
community/firefox-extension-https-everywhere 2020.11.17-1 (firefox-addons)
Plugin for firefox which ensures you are using https whenever it's possible.
community/firefox-extension-passff 1.10.5-1 (firefox-addons)
zx2c4 pass manager addon for firefox
community/firefox-extension-privacybadger 2020.12.10-1 (firefox-addons)
Block third party tracking in your browser
community/firefox-gnome-theme-maia 20201114-1
Adwaita theme with maia highlight color for Firefox
community/firefox-noscript 11.1.6-1 (firefox-addons)
Extension for firefox which disables javascript
community/firefox-spell-ru 0.4.5-3
Russian spellchecker dictionary for Firefox
community/firefox-stylus 1.5.14-1 (firefox-addons)
Easily install themes and skins for many popular sites
community/firefox-tree-style-tab 3.6.4-1 (firefox-addons)
Firefox extension to show tabs like a tree
community/firefox-tridactyl 1.20.4-1 (firefox-addons)
Replace Firefox's control mechanism with one modelled on Vim
community/firefox-ublock-origin 1.31.0-2 (firefox-addons)
Efficient blocker add-on for various browsers. Fast, potent, and lean
community/firefox-umatrix 1.4.0-2 (firefox-addons)
Point and click matrix to filter net requests by source, destination and type
community/otf-fira-mono 2:3.206-4
Mozilla's monospace typeface designed for Firefox OS
community/otf-fira-sans 1:4.301-2
Mozilla's sans-serif typeface designed for Firefox OS
community/palemoon-bin 28.17.0-1
Open source web browser based on Firefox focusing on efficiency.
community/passff-host 1:1.2.1-3
PassFF native messaging host application for Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, Vivaldi
community/python-fxa 0.7.7-2
Python library for interacting with the Firefox Accounts ecosystem
community/ttf-fira-mono 2:3.206-4
Mozilla's monospace typeface designed for Firefox OS
community/ttf-fira-sans 1:4.301-2
Mozilla's sans-serif typeface designed for Firefox OS
Thank you. I had some other help and all works well but I could not disinstall Firefox for the software manager had also disappeared.
I was told to do:
rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
sudo pacman -S pamac-common --overwrite “*”
sudo pacman -S pamac
software manager came back then I reinstalled Firefox.
Well, as long as everything worked out, it’s good!
Happy it’s working again
Thanks for your help. Nioce to know people ae listening 
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