1. On the address bar, type ‘about:config’ without quotes.

  2. Locate keyword.url
  3. Right click on it and reset.

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP. I was able to stop the ICQ search engine by resetting it . But every time I restart the browser or open a new window I get the same red bar attempting to hijack my search engine to ICQ's Search engine. It just keeps coming back to haunt me.

I also had the most annoying experience with icq. I uninstalled the program, did the "about:config" that everyone talked about but I still had the "icq search run by google" or something or other. anyway, to make a long story short, the FINAL thing i did was:

1. open up firefox 2. go to "tools" 3. choose "options" 4. type in "google.com" in the homepage section 5. click "ok"

i am never downloading icq again!

1. On the address bar, type ‘about:config’ without quotes.

 2. Locate keyword.url
 3. Right click on it and reset.

That works but if you don't have the reset option because of the ICQ, all you have to do is "modify" and enter "http://www.google.com/search?q=" And walah!

I had the same problem like many people here, that custom searchbars keeps after uninstall or manually modify about:config. I managed to get rid of it by resetting to their default values the following entries in about:config

- browser.startup.homepage - browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID - browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone - browser.search.defaultenginename

Restarting Firefox will popup the window for the first launch after a fresh install/upgrade version, but this make me a happy panda about the search engines correctly used.

Thank you guys sooo much for this! I was getting so mad!

Thank you so much :)) that was so frustraiting and makes me insane every time :)