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How do I get rid of Babylon Toolbar? I followed all the suggestions here: I'vw followed the help in the forums.. But it's still there. W7+FF15.0

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I've uninstalled the program. I've deleted all registry entries. I've deleted babylon from the top right search engine.

I've gone into about:config and reset every line with babylon. I've also tried replacing babylon with google and then resetting the babylon entries.

But the babylon entries still appear when I close firefox and reopen about:config.

I've uninstalled the program. I've deleted all registry entries. I've deleted babylon from the top right search engine. I've gone into about:config and reset every line with babylon. I've also tried replacing babylon with google and then resetting the babylon entries. But the babylon entries still appear when I close firefox and reopen about:config.

Chosen solution

One way that programs can insert settings into Firefox preferences is to create a user.js file in your personal settings folder (AKA Firefox profile folder). To check for that:

Help > Troubleshooting Information > "Show Folder" button

If you find a file named user.js

(1) Rename it to something else

(2) Return to Firefox, open about:config, and Reset the Babylon entries

(3) Restart Firefox to see whether you've flushed it

Any luck?

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Did all those things. I don't currently have an issue with babylon sabotaging anything, but it still shows when I enter about:config and search on babylon. Hence it is still hanging around.

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Chosen Solution

One way that programs can insert settings into Firefox preferences is to create a user.js file in your personal settings folder (AKA Firefox profile folder). To check for that:

Help > Troubleshooting Information > "Show Folder" button

If you find a file named user.js

(1) Rename it to something else

(2) Return to Firefox, open about:config, and Reset the Babylon entries

(3) Restart Firefox to see whether you've flushed it

Any luck?

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THAT WORKED! Many thanks!

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Any reason not to delete the user.js file?

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You might keep the old user.js file in case you later learned that it had actual preferences you wanted and you needed to copy them to a new file. Otherwise, no reason.

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What is the content of the user.js file if you open it for inspection in a plain text editor like Notepad?

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user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.autoRvrt", "false");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar_i.newTab", false);
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.tlbrSrchUrl", "http://search.babylon.com/?babsrc=TB_def&mntrId=b8f4c378000000000000f46d040f489e&q=");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.id", "b8f4c378000000000000f46d040f489e");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.appId", "{BDB69379-802F-4eaf-B541-F8DE92DD98DB}");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.instlDay", "15585");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.vrsn", "1.6.9.12");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.vrsni", "1.6.9.12");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar_i.vrsnTs", "1.6.9.1213:03:20");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.prtnrId", "babylon");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.prdct", "BabylonToolbar");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.aflt", "babsst");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar_i.smplGrp", "none");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.tlbrId", "base");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.instlRef", "sst");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.dfltLng", "en");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.excTlbr", false);
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar.admin", false);
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar_i.babTrack", "affID=111305&tt=3512_7");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar_i.babExt", "");
user_pref("extensions.BabylonToolbar_i.srcExt", "ss");

Modified by cor-el

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Yes, that all all entries added by Babylon, so you can remove that user.js file and check if it doesn't return.

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Great. Good to be rid of it. Still not sure how it gone on my PC, I use noscript.