This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

why does my homepage keep reverting to "search.conduit.com" ?

  • 6 replies
  • 9 have this problem
  • 1 view
  • Last reply by Bert

Bert
Bert
more options

why does my homepage keep reverting to "search.conduit.com" ?

why does my homepage keep reverting to "search.conduit.com" ?

All Replies (6)

Swarnava Sengupta
Swarnava Sengupta
  • Locale Leader
more options

The surest method of getting rid of that Conduit garbage is to create a new Profile, AFAIK Conduit hasn't gone as far as installing their crap into the program files.

Bert
Bert Question owner
more options

there's no "Organize Bookmarks" in firefox 9.0.1 nor any import or export which makes it very hard to use a new profile which I tried

James
James
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

bertreus, do you have any Toolbar extensions installed as Conduit is how some of the toolbars are made for Firefox.

Bert
Bert Question owner
more options

It was in my toolbar addons but it was disabled so I removed it but it made no difference , it keeps coming back. Has Mozilla allowed this interloper? I'm not alone with this problem as there are 100s of queries on the 'net about this. Apparently this thing has been annoying people for a long time now but nobody has found an answer as to how to get rid of it

Modified by Bert

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

  • Open the about:config page via the location bar and do a search for conduit via the Filter at the top of the about:config page.
  • Reset all conduit related prefs that appear bold (user set) via the right-click context menu to their default values.
Bert
Bert Question owner
more options

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes). 

   Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
   https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode 

   Open the about:config page via the location bar and do a search for conduit via the Filter at the top of the about:config page.
   Reset all conduit related prefs that appear bold (user set) via the right-click context menu to their default values. 

   http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

Reply This also doesn't solve it

Modified by Bert