I constantly have been removing ASK as the search engine as I want to use Google. I remove it and it reappears a day later instead of Google. What can I do?
I left click on the search box and it brings up the potential search engines. I click on manage search engines and then click on ASK which I then remove. Within a day or two ASK has again replaced Google as the search engine. This doesn't happen on my laptop which I also run Firefox on.
I left click on the search box and it brings up the potential search engines. I click on manage search engines and then click on ASK which I then remove. Within a day or two ASK has again replaced Google as the search engine. This doesn't happen on my laptop which I also run Firefox on.
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- Remove Ask Toolbar (if you have it installed):
- NOTE: You DO have the Ask toolbar installed according to information supplied with your post. Click on More system info to the right of your original question, scroll to the bottom of that display to see your User Agent:
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110614 AskTbPPC/3.12.2.16749 Firefox/3.6.18 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)
- http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Uninstalling+add-ons
- http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cannot%20uninstall%20an%20add-on
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_toolbars
- NOTE: You DO have the Ask toolbar installed according to information supplied with your post. Click on More system info to the right of your original question, scroll to the bottom of that display to see your User Agent:
- Reset your home page (if the Ask search page is displayed when starting Firefox): http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page
- You can reset to the default by clicking "Restore to default" on Options > General > Startup > Home page. Be sure to set "When Firefox starts" to "Show my home page" on that same panel.
- Reset your Location Bar search engine (if typing a few words in the URL/Location Bar takes you to Ask search):
- type about:config in your Location Bar, like typing a web site address, and press the Enter key
- ignore warning and choose to continue
- in Filter, type keyword.URL
- in lower part of screen, if it is bold and shows "user set", right-click keyword.URL and choose "Reset"
- in Filter, type Ask
- any items in lower part of screen in bold and showing "user set", right-click and choose "Reset"
- close about:config tab
- See:
- If Ask is shown in your Search Bar and you want to remove it:
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Not related to your question, but...
You need to update some plug-ins:
- Plug-in check: https://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape: Installing/Updating Adobe Reader in Firefox
- Shockwave Flash (Adobe Flash or Flash): Updating Flash in Firefox
- Next Generation Java Plug-in for Mozilla browsers: Installing or Updating Java in Firefox