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How do I reinstate the Google searchbox which has been replaced by a different, unknown searchbox?

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Matt-A
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A friend advised me to install a decompression software package called J-Zip so that I could unpack some files he had posted online as a .rar file. I did this, but the software reset my homepage and replaced the Google searchbox in my toolbar with an unknown feature. I immediately uninstalled the software (it's own uninstall feature did not work, unsurprisingly I suppose, so I used Windows' own 'add or remove software' feature) and reset my homepage, but I do not know how to get rid of the unknown searchbox & reinstate the Google searchbox which was there previously - I do not want the rest of Google's toolbar features and do not want to reduce screen size with an unnecessary toolbar, so I don't want to download the Google Toolbar in it's entirety, I just want to restore what I had 2 days ago. Can you help? I am running Firefox 5.0 on Windows XP Professional 2002 with Service Pack 3 Many thanks

A friend advised me to install a decompression software package called J-Zip so that I could unpack some files he had posted online as a .rar file. I did this, but the software reset my homepage and replaced the Google searchbox in my toolbar with an unknown feature. I immediately uninstalled the software (it's own uninstall feature did not work, unsurprisingly I suppose, so I used Windows' own 'add or remove software' feature) and reset my homepage, but I do not know how to get rid of the unknown searchbox & reinstate the Google searchbox which was there previously - I do not want the rest of Google's toolbar features and do not want to reduce screen size with an unnecessary toolbar, so I don't want to download the Google Toolbar in it's entirety, I just want to restore what I had 2 days ago. Can you help? I am running Firefox 5.0 on Windows XP Professional 2002 with Service Pack 3 Many thanks

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the-edmeister
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See these two support sections.

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Search%20bar#w_switching-search-engines

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Search%20bar#w_removing-a-search-engine