Do not want ASK search engine with Firefox or in Toolbar

Everytime I download Mozilla Firefox, which I was using just yesterday, I get ASK with it and it wants to be my search engine and is in the Toolbar - so I delete it all to get rid of it. I use iGoogle and I do not want ASK.com . Can I get Mozilla without it or Babylon or any other thing but MOZILLA FIREFOX???????

Try:
*https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/searchreset/
If there is a problem with the about:home Home page then try to reset the search engine used on the about:home page.
Reset the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone pref via the right-click context menu to the default on the about:config page and close and restart Firefox to restore the about:home page to its default.
* Open the about:config page via the location bar
* Type in the Filter bar: mstone
* Right-click the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone line and select: Reset
* Close and restart Firefox
If that didn't help then delete the delete the chromeappsstore.sqlite file in the Firefox Profile Folder and repeat the above.

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* http://forum.aumha.org/
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[svn] 3913: BLZ-272 Two long polling endpoints not working in same app with Firefox

Revision: 3913
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-10-27 13:49:02 -0700 (Mon, 27 Oct 2008)
Log Message:
BLZ-272 Two long polling endpoints not working in same app with Firefox
The long polling waitMonitor object in the FlexSession did not keep track of
blocking polls via endpoint ID. This prevented the second channel from blocking.
Enhance the FlexSession.waitMonitor to be a map of endpointID to
EndpointQueue objects, and keep track of the monitors based on what endpoint
they are associated with.
QA: Yes
Doc:No
Checkintests: passed
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/BLZ-272
Modified Paths:
blazeds/branches/3.0.x/modules/core/src/java/flex/messaging/FlexSession.java
blazeds/branches/3.0.x/modules/core/src/java/flex/messaging/client/FlexClient.java

Revision: 3913
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-10-27 13:49:02 -0700 (Mon, 27 Oct 2008)
Log Message:
BLZ-272 Two long polling endpoints not working in same app with Firefox
The long polling waitMonitor object in the FlexSession did not keep track of
blocking polls via endpoint ID. This prevented the second channel from blocking.
Enhance the FlexSession.waitMonitor to be a map of endpointID to
EndpointQueue objects, and keep track of the monitors based on what endpoint
they are associated with.
QA: Yes
Doc:No
Checkintests: passed
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/BLZ-272
Modified Paths:
blazeds/branches/3.0.x/modules/core/src/java/flex/messaging/FlexSession.java
blazeds/branches/3.0.x/modules/core/src/java/flex/messaging/client/FlexClient.java

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