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get rid of avg as location bar search

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kwhitt
kwhitt
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Cant get rid of AVG as location bar search. Tried to remove addon extension but not an option, so disabled it but didnt work. Then followed change keyword.URL to google but everytime restart start firefox avg takes over again. Even deleted avg from computer, rebooted, changed keyword.URL again to google but still cant get rid of avg.

Cant get rid of AVG as location bar search. Tried to remove addon extension but not an option, so disabled it but didnt work. Then followed change keyword.URL to google but everytime restart start firefox avg takes over again. Even deleted avg from computer, rebooted, changed keyword.URL again to google but still cant get rid of avg.

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Hi,

Please see this.

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Vivek
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Hi,

Please see this.

kwhitt
kwhitt Question owner
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Thank you Thank you so much Vivek! Your solution Open Containing Folder. Open the file user.js with a text editor (like Notepad). Remove the lines for the options you want to be able to change worked! I deleted all