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My awesome bar keeps taking me to www.ask.com and it's really annoying and really not awesome! How do I make it stop, use google, and be awesome again?

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previously if i typed a question or the wrong address or anything into my awesome bar (not the search bar on the right, the big navigation bar on the left), firefox would take me to the correct website or google. which i liked. now i'm always taken to ask jeeves, which is incredibly annoying. i've tried blocking it on my control panel but it still appears. HELP!

previously if i typed a question or the wrong address or anything into my awesome bar (not the search bar on the right, the big navigation bar on the left), firefox would take me to the correct website or google. which i liked. now i'm always taken to ask jeeves, which is incredibly annoying. i've tried blocking it on my control panel but it still appears. HELP!

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  1. Remove Ask Toolbar (if you have it installed):
  2. 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.
  3. Reset your Location Bar search engine (if typing a few words in the URL/Location Bar takes you to Ask search):
  4. If Ask is shown in your Search Bar and you want to remove it:


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