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• Cannot delete the search engines on my Mac. "Delete" button is grayed out. ??

  I tried to search for reset addon and nothing has changed.

  It also seems that Firefox change my settings as homepage and the size of the police.

  I'm not very tech savvy.

  Mac Mini running Yosemite 10.10.2

  Thank you

  See it works on MacOSX.

  Put this in the address bar and press ENTER.

  chrome://browser/content/search/engineManager.XUL

  You can copy and paste this address in "internal".

  Select the search engine you want to delete, and then use the Remove button in the bottom right.

• I have delete Yahoo search engines, but it maintains have added. How do I stop this?

  I remove my Yahoo search engine, but it keeps adding back that "your default settings of the search engine have been restored. I don't want that. How can I stop it?

  Hello, Tim.

  You may have a problem with an extension or plugin that obstructs normal behavior of your Firefox. Have you tried to disable all add-ons (just to see) to see if Firefox goes back to normal?

• Instructions to remove the search engine do not work, the "delete" button remains grayed out check marks independently. Is there another way that actually works?

  The Firefox Support instructions below do not work in version 36. The button 'delete' is never gray State asset once the unwanted/s search engine are checked for removal. I tried one at a time and in groups, it does everything just as they suggest below.

  Delete a search engine

  You can remove search engines, that you don't need by performing the following steps on the search bar in the toolbar or on the page tab.

     Click the search engine icon and select Manage Search Engines... to open the search engines manager.
     To remove a search engine, select it from the list, and click Remove.
  

  If you accidentally delete a default search engine, click on restore default values to recover the default search engines.

     If you accidentally delete a search engine that you installed, you must re-install it.
  

  I found the solution, the surprisingly simple. Thanks to everyone for trying, but against all the recommendations after a new analysis of malware, virus and upgrade to the latest version released on March 5, 2015... Here is the fix:

  Left click on the dropdown search button, then left click on the "change search settings." Ignore completely the checkboxes as suggested by Mozilla. The text of the search engine you want to delete to highlight in blue in the Middle, click on the grey Out button below should become active. The only function of the boxes by the search engine will make them visible or not when using the search box in Firefox. The solutions proposed by others seems logical, but I learned more than 4 decades as a technician in computer science, opt for the simple solution first. Thank you all for your suggestions, this fix works for versions 36 and 36.0.01on Windows 7. I guess it should work for other OS also.

• I accidentally deleted my entire search engine bar in the toolbar. Please help me to get it back.

  I accidentally deleted my entire search engine bar in the toolbar. I can't find how to get it back. Can someone help me?

  Thank you

  You are welcome

• The search engine DuckDuckGo appears as my primary search engine every time that I start Firefox, even if I delete it from my search engines every time, WHY?

  I tried several times to get rid of DuckDuckGo. I use the search engine to remove it and whenever I restart Firefox it reappears as my main search engine. I ran Norton 360 antivirus after deleting DuckDuckGo and he finds any problems, so I don't know what to do next. How can I permanently delete DuckDuckGo of Firefox?

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  Do you see this search engine in the searchplugins folder in the Firefox profile folder or Firefox program?

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_search_or_add_new_engines

  You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:

  • Help > troubleshooting information > profile directory: see file (Linux: open the directory;) Mac: View in the Finder)

• Search engines not available, except in mode "Run as Administrator". delete the parent.lock file profiles did not help

  After the upgrade to 21 FF, search engines no longer appear in the bar at the top right of the screen, so no searches are possible. I can navigate to my favorites and apparently also to the links contained in the e-mails.

  If I right click on the FF icon and choose the "Run as Administrator" option, the search engines are there again. I tried to delete the parent.lock in the profiles folder, that this solution was solved a problem I've had recently with the previous version of FF (not being not able to open FF and getting the error message on another version of it running, which had to be closed in the first place - but there was no other version running.) In this case, too, before I discovered the solution, I could open FF using the option "Run as Administrator"). However deleting the parent.lock file does not resolve this issue.

  I would be grateful for your help, especially if a person not very computer like me can understand put in simple terms!

  You have the XML files including Google's default search engine in the browser\searchplugins file in the Firefox program folder?

  Try to remove the file search.json and a possible search.sqlite in the Firefox profile folder to reset the default search engines.

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

  You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:

  • Help > troubleshooting information > profile directory: see file

  Firefox will rebuild the file search.json from the default search engines in the browser\\searchplugins file in the Firefox program folder and the searchplugins folder in the Firefox profile folder.

• How can I delete Y! the toolbar of the tab search engine?

  A Y! search engine on my tab toolbar too much of the tab.

  Thanks Ed, to try to answer my query. Earlier, however, I discovered the solution. I went into modules and suddenly noticed that I had never seen before. Don't remember its title - he had to come with an Upgrade to FLV Applians that I had downloaded recently. Indeed, whenever you open a new tab, where normally you get "subject: vacuum", he showed a Yahoo! Search window. So I deleted the add-on, restart Firefox and presto - the search engine Yahoo! incriminated (on the tab bar) disappeared and the new tabs are now blank.

  Thank you once again - problem solved!

• My default search engine is Google and I deleted Bing. Everytime I open a new tab, Bing appears and it takes focus, so if I'm typing a URL in the new tab, he entered the bing search box crap. HOW CAN I GET RID OF THIS CURSED BING?

  My default search engine is Google and I deleted Bing search providers. Facebook is set as my homepage. Everytime I open a new tab, a box search Bing is displayed on the page and it takes focus, then when I'm typing a URL in the new tab, he entered the bing search box crap. HOW CAN I GET RID OF THIS CURSED BING

  Try this;

  • https://support.Mozilla.com/en-us/KB/removing%20The%20Search%20Helper%20Extension%20and%20Bing%20Bar

• I've accidentally deleted from google as default search engine in the drop-down list and can't manage search engines

  I want in the drop-down list for ease of use, but are not all the addons I've tried... I am currently using 18.0.2

  Hello

  See:

  • Manage search engines

  In the Manager at the bottom left there is a button to restore the default settings for search engines

  • https://support.CDN.Mozilla.NET/media/uploads/images/2014-01-28-06-47-46-b798ab.PNG

• delete the search yahoo on chrome engine

  Recently (although this seems to be an older problem for Windows users), my default search engine has been hijacked to display Yahoo whenever I click on 'new tab' on Chrome. It's happened on Safari, but solved the problem by changing the default settings.

  The solutions I could find are all specific to Windows. Does anyone have a Mac solution?

  Running Chrome v47... (to date) on a 2-year-old iMac, v10.10.5, using Avast security. Interestingly, the Avast icon is gray when the Yahoo Search tab is turned.

  Use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware: http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php

  Reset Google Chrome settings: reset of the browsers on OS X (Safari, Chrome, Firefox)

• Default search engine & homepage

  I think I have a bug.

  I have my default homepage set to MSN and Google search engine.  Since yesterday, whenever I open Safari, it opens on the Yahoo search engine.  Even when I do a search.  I checked the preferences of Safari and it still says MSN for the Home Page and of Google for my default search engine.

  Unfortunately I don't have time capsule implemented so I don't think I can go back in time and reset for a first date... or can I?

  Click here and follow the instructions, or if you do not delete rather manually the adware, launches MalwareBytes for Mac.

  MalwareBytes simplifies the process of removal of adware, but does not stop it or other malware from entering the computer. It should not be invoked to prevent future incidents; Instead, avoid downloading software from sources other than the Mac App Store or Developer Web sites.

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• Can not remove permanently secure choice of search engines research

  Hello. I deleted all my engines except Google search. However, there is a single search called Secure. I manually delete, but if I closed and reopened FF it reappears. It shows in the search, as well as menu choices if I try to do a search, it shows at the bottom of suggestions of concordance.

  I did a little research, and it is not related to moy. I am running McAfee. I also McAfee Secure Search does not, but it seems not be McAfee. I noticed this after I have updated to the latest version of FF. I don't know how to remove it permanently. Any help would be appreciated. I added two screenshots. A watch what it looks like when I do a search, and the other when I go into the options for search engines. Thank you.

  It certainly isn't a search engine plugin.

  You want to look for in these places and see if it is sitting there and can be deleted?

  (1) for the shared search engine plugins folder

  Open C:\Program Files (x 86) \Mozilla Firefox\browser using the start menu or Windows Explorer. Are there records related to research here? Search plugins have an .xml extension and usually show the file type "XML Document".

  (2) current folder plugins profile search engine

  Try to open the settings file (AKA Firefox profile) current Firefox help

  • button "3-bar" menu > "?" button > troubleshooting information
  • (menu bar) Help > troubleshooting information
  • type or paste everything: in the address bar and press Enter

  In the first table of the page, click on the view file"" button. This should launch a new window that lists the various files and folders in Windows Explorer.

  Look for a folder named searchplugins and check inside for the unwanted search engine XML file. You will find there?

• Downloaded 10 Windows 7, firefox using Google my search engine - for re - installed Favorites, how?

  Using Windows 7 Home version, downloaded Windows 10, reset Firefox browser with the Google search engine, deleted Microsoft Edge and and the lowest bar Windows Explorer icons. Now I can't find my list of favorites, so how I to get it back?

  You can import bookmarks from any internet browser. For more information on how to do this, please refer to this Mozilla support article:

  • Import bookmarks and data personal from another browser

  Is that what you're looking for? Please let us know.

• Somehow my search engine has been changed to yahoo from google, and now I can't get google search to stay as search engine, how can I solve this?

  I don't know how it happened, but can not get google search to stay as my search engine. I use the version the most recent Firefox is here. I deleted all the other search engines, but it always goes back to yahoo. Not like yahoo, I want my back lol, google. Please tell me how to solve this problem, thank you.

  Unwanted modules can take control of your settings in Firefox (search engine, home page, the new tab page) and make it impossible for you to fight them. Here's my method of tracking down and cleaning of the bad modules, the air pirates and injectors ad. I know it seems long, but it's not so bad.

  (1) open the Control Panel, uninstall a program. After the loading of the list, click on the column heading "installed on" to group infections, I mean additions by date. This can help the undisclosed items bundle smoker who snuck out with some software, you have agreed to install. Beware of everything that you don't recognize / remember, since malware often uses sounding names important or innocent to discourage you remove. Out as much garbage as possible here.

  (2) open Firefox page modules using either:

  • CTRL + SHIFT + a
  • "3-bar" menu button (or tools) > Add-ons
  • in the Windows "Run" dialog box, type or paste
    firefox.exe "about:addons"

  In the left column, click on Plugins. Set essential and unrecognized plugins 'never enable '.

  In the left column, click Extensions. Then, in case of doubt, disable (or delete, if possible) not recognized and unwanted extensions. Do not forget that all extensions are optional, none come with Firefox, and you can learn more about them by checking their reviews on the site of the Add - ons.

  Often, a link will appear above at least an extension disabled to restart Firefox. You can complete your work on the tab and click one of the links in the last step.

  Any improvement?

  (3) you can search the rest of problems with scanning/cleaning tools listed in our technical support article: Troubleshooting Firefox problems caused by malware. These scanners on request are free and take a long time to run. If they end quickly, especially if they require the payment you have a serious infection. I suggest the specialty forums listed in the article in this case.

  Success?