Helllo sir/man, I need to remove a certain search engine from my browser,, that probably got into my pc while installing something else.

From last week i keep on removing a certain serch engine, but it re-appers after i restart my pc or open my brower after and hour or two.
Search engine name is Gosearch.
Its really annoying to see that search engine.. again and again..
I even checked my installed softwares list but there was nothing with that name there.

You can use this chrome URI in the location/address bar to open the previously used window to manage search engines and possibly bookmark this page.
*chrome://browser/content/search/engineManager.xul
User installed search engine are stored in the searchplugins folder in the Firefox profile folder.
You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

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See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=627084&p=5069645#p5069645

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Use most or all of the listed programs. Each works differently.
If one program misses something, another may catch it.
Sometimes a problem with Firefox may be a result of malware installed on your computer, that you may not be aware of.
You can try these free programs to scan for malware, which work with your existing antivirus software:
* [http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/default.aspx Microsoft Safety Scanner]
* [http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/ MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware]
* [http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363 TDSSKiller - AntiRootkit Utility]
* [http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro/ Hitman Pro]
* [http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/ ESET Online Scanner]
[http://windows.microsoft.com/MSE Microsoft Security Essentials] is a good permanent antivirus for Windows 7/Vista/XP if you don't already have one.
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Articles like these should help:
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You're welcome.
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* Close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")
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Hi kjkirtley,
Your question is not quite clear about where you are doing the searches from, but I will presume you are trying to do searches from Safari (Apple’s web browser) and it is using Bing as the default search engine. You can set the default search engine to Google by going to the Safari menu > Preferences > General > Default Search Engine:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH17150
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Brett L

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I did go to about:config and made the keyword.URL to default (Google). It is not getting affected. Please help me to know how can I set it in Firefox.
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I have tried to use the suggestions listed but I am very dense and need a walk through. How do I permenently remove yahoo search from my list of search engines?
I can remove it by manage search engines... but it comes back.

I had the same problem...I searched many forums for answers...Finally this one works.
Click Start....Click Run...enter this:
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