How do I turn off ASK.com
How do I turn off Ask.com as my search engine. I didn't ask for it and don't want it.
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by jscher2000First, you should check whether you have any add-ons that might have made that change. You can review all your extensions on the following tab and disable all that are nonessential or unrecognized, then restart Firefox.
orange Firefox button or classic Tools menu > Add-ons > Extensions category
Next, to reset your default search provider back to Google, you could try this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/
Does that work?
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- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.5
- SiteAdvisor
- McAfee MSS+ NPAPI Plugin
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_37 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Google Update
- McAfee MSC FF plugin DLL
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- 5.1.10411.0
- iTunes Detector Plug-in
- NPWLPG
- GEPlugin
- CANON iMAGE GATEWAY Album Plugin Utility Module for IJ
- NVIDIA 3D Vision Streaming plugin for Mozilla browsers
- NVIDIA 3D Vision plugin for Mozilla browsers
- Bing Bar
- The plug-in allows you to open and edit files using Microsoft Office applications
- Office Authorization plug-in for NPAPI browsers
- np-mswmp
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- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
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Chosen Solution
First, you should check whether you have any add-ons that might have made that change. You can review all your extensions on the following tab and disable all that are nonessential or unrecognized, then restart Firefox.
orange Firefox button or classic Tools menu > Add-ons > Extensions category
Next, to reset your default search provider back to Google, you could try this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/
Does that work?
Question owner
"Add ons" disable did not work but default search provider reset did. Much appreciated. Thank you very much.