Stop the ask search engine intruding as the defualt
I am disappointed that Firefox keeps resetting my default search engine to "ASK" - I have asked them to not to but they haven't answered and I am hoping you can tell me how to stop this very annoying intrusion, Ta [email protected]
Check the Window control panel for Yahoo.
* From the Start menu, select Control Panel
* Open the list of installed programs:
** If in icon view, click Programs and Features
** If in category view, under "Programs", click Uninstall a program
* In the list of programs select the program, and then click Uninstall.
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After deleting "Ask" search engine it would repopulate when firefox is closed and reopened. I also tried to move the order of the search engines but "Ask" is always set to the primary search engine.
After deleting "Ask" search engine it would repopulate when firefox is closed and reopened. I also tried to move the order of the search engines but "Ask" is always set to the primary search engine.
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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 <b>about:config</b> 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. -
How do I ged rid of ask search engine ?
After updating to new Firefox version I found ASK displacing GOOGLE toolbar WITHOUT my permission.
Not only that, it planted itself in such a hideous way as to make removal impossible (or very difficult).
I consider ASK malware.You may have installed a variant of the "VSearch" ad-injection malware.
Triple-click the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
/Library/LaunchDaemons
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
A folder named "LaunchDaemons" may open. Look inside it for a file with a name of the form
com.something.daemon.plist
Here something is a variable word, which can be different in each case. It could be "cloud," "dot," "highway," "submarine," "trusteddownloads," or pretty much anything else.
There may also be a file named
com.something.helper.plist
in the same folder.
If you find files with names that fit the above description, post what you have for "something." -
Must remove Ask search engine.
Dig this cats. Go to your Mozilla start up page. Go to Google home page. Then drag the Google Icon on the left side by the search bar over to the Icon of a home on the upper right side and Google will be restored as your home page. I hate you Ask.com, you were like a leach!
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I am using ver 6.0. I continually keep getting the search engine "ASK" as my primary search engine altho I continually either drop it down the list or even delete it! How can I permanently delete it? It comes back after a shutdown of firefox or a computer reboot.
Hi
I had this issue too after installing a couple of fileserve download programs.
It is pretty simple to stop firefox jumping to this earch engine.
In your firefox browser type
about:config
It will ask are you sure that you are going to be careful.
Select yes
In the filter bar type fileserve
For all of the results that it shows Right click and select reset
This will take your system back to normal -
I clicked on the search engine emblem and then I clicked on the "manage search engines" line. I then deleted bing as a search engine option. However when I open a new tab the bing page appears on my screen. How do I stop this from happening?
This thread has some solutions:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/762043
The most straightforward seems to be: hold Ctrl and Left-Click on the Reload button. You could also Middle-click on the Reload button (e.g. "click" with the mouse wheel, if you have a wheel-mouse.) The thread above also has some other options.
Edit: you could also hold Ctrl and drag a tab next to itself to clone it, another suggestion from the above thread. -
I suspect some toolbar has changed the search engine on my home page which is the standard Mozilla Firefox start Page. It used to be google but now is Ask. I want to change it back to Google.
You can open the <b>about:config</b> page via the location bar and do a search for <i>ask.com</i> via the Filter at the top of the about:config page.<br />
You can reset all <i>ask.com</i> related prefs that appear bold (user set) via the right-click context menu to their default values.
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Preferences+are+not+saved -
What usually happens is when I open firefox I'll usually start typing in the url bar or in the browser search engine to the right of url bar. The problem is that while I'm in the middle of typing, firefox will move my cursor to the homepage's search engine. This gets annoying after awhile because I'll have to stop and reclick where I was typing at (sometimes it'll even move it back!). Is there a way to disable this so that firefox won't try to relocate my typing cursor every time a new page loads?
You can set to open a blank page on opening Firefox and click the Home button if you want to see the Home page. You can also click ESC to stop loading the page before typing in the location bar.
Tools > Options > General > Startup: "When Firefox Starts": "Show a blank page" -
See question above.
When I installed a new program yesterday, it also without my knowledge installed a customised Yahoo toolbar at the same time setting default search to Yahoo.
Even though I removed the toolbar from Firefox, nothing I did would stop Yahoo from being the default search. Changing it in "manage search engines" or about:config didn't help as it was immediately reset. I wasted hours searching the web looking for a solution.
Eventually I started task manager and noticed an application called '''searchsettings.exe''' this is '''malware''' supplied by completely completely unethical company called '''Spigot Inc''' this runs in the background forcing search back to Yahoo contrary to the computer owner's settings.
It may be uninstalled via the Windows Control Panel. One just needs to find the toolbar to uninstall. In my case I found and removed an application called "pdfForge Toolbar" which also removed searchsettings.exe.
I am absolutely galled at the audacity of '''Spigot Inc''' installing a program surreptitiously that prevented me from changing the settings on my own computer is completely dishonest. I refuse to use any software that installs a Spigot Inc Toolbar, it is about time that Spigot was shut down! -
I downloaded Skype onto my MacBook Pro with OS X Yosemite, now I'm getting redirected to Bing search engine, also, I'm getting pop up ads non stop! How do I get the pop ups removed?
Only download software from the developer's web site.
Please review the options below to determine which method is best to remove the Adware installed on your computer.
The Easy, safe, effective method:
http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php
If you are comfortable doing manual file removals use the somewhat more difficult method:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987
Also read the articles below to be more prepared for the next time there is an issue on your computer.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7471
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-8071
http://www.thesafemac.com/tech-support-scam-pop-ups/ -
When I try to open a web site from one of the search engines a pop up shows stating that Firefox can't establish connection to the server. I can't open any websites through any of the search engines.
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.<br />
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.<br />
* http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
* http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
* http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
* http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
* http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
* "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked -
How do I stop other search engines from continually hijacking the firefox browser?
I'm fed up with this happening and not being able to get back to firefox without significant drama. Is there some way I can set up a permanent barrier, and it it malware that's causing the problem?
Permanently? Hardly. However, you could store some settings (like search engine, default start page) in user.js file (in your Firefox data folder).
Sadly, some malwares use the same trick to hijack search engines as well.
If you think the hijack is due to malware, run Spybot and adwcleaner. -
When I first go to the internet with Firefox, then want to type in what I am looking for, it opens with Creative Commons. I would MUCH rather it opened with a search engine such as Google. How do I change to this? N.B I am using a Mac.
''morflorian wrote:''
if the migth-be protocol has no handler, assume it is just a search engine request).
The main problem with that would be that Firefox would fail to notify the user in case of a valid protocol that's not associated with a program, and would instead send the URL as a search query. Firefox would appear broken, when in fact the problem is with the external application. That's far from desirable. This isn't an uncommon occurrence with externally-handled protocols like ''magnet''.
Also, I don't think the vast majority of people are likely to run into this problem. Even those that do can easily work around it, by placing the search words first (e.g. ''gingerbread intitle:recipes''), or by starting the query with a search engine keyword (e.g. ''g date:1 heartbleed aftermath''). To assign a keyword to a search engine, click the icon in the search bar and choose Manage Search Engines.
If you feel very strongly about this, head over to the ''#firefox'' [http://irc.mozilla.org IRC channel] and see if you can find someone familiar with the File Handling component. If they think this change is a good idea, you could then file a bug report. -
change from google to ask occurred without my conscious involvement; cannot find a place to alter that selection.
Please see https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Search%20bar?s=default+search+engine&r=1&as=s#w_switching-search-engines
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