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how to remove the bing small toolbar by the Mozilla toolbar

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I have deleted all Bing references from my hard drive, from IE 8 and from Mozilla but the damned , small, Bing toolbar is still by the regular Mozilla toolbar. There is no evidence of Bing on mt add ons or on my extensions. I run Win7 and Mozilla 5 Is there a way to eliminate this thing? thanks Gaston

I have deleted all Bing references from my hard drive, from IE 8 and from Mozilla but the damned , small, Bing toolbar is still by the regular Mozilla toolbar. There is no evidence of Bing on mt add ons or on my extensions. I run Win7 and Mozilla 5 Is there a way to eliminate this thing? thanks Gaston

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Is your question about removing Bing from the Search Bar in the upper right corner? See https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Search%20bar Look at the section "Removing a Search engine".


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Not related to your question, but...

You need to update some plug-ins:

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That Bing toolbar may be installed in Firefox using a different name. Disable extensions until you discover which one it is.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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Chosen Solution

Is your question about removing Bing from the Search Bar in the upper right corner? See https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Search%20bar Look at the section "Removing a Search engine".


If this reply solves your problem, please click "Solved It" next to this reply when signed-in to the forum.



Not related to your question, but...

You need to update some plug-ins:

Modified by SafeBrowser

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Thanks you, it worked wonderfully. Gaston

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Sometime Bing is not located in the Add/Remove programs section of the control panel.

6 Easy Steps to Remove Bing from Mozilla Firefox:

1. Click on the "inverted triangle" located to the right of the orange Bing icon.

2. Select the option "Manage Search Engines...". (A pop-up window will appear titled "Manage Search Engine List.)

3. Select "Bing".

4. Click the "Remove" button.

5. Select the desired search engine from the list.

6. Click "OK"

All Done.... :-)

Happy Searching...

Long version: https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Search%20bar?s=bing&as=s

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Thank you, I had done that already and it worked! all the best Gaston