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I FINALLY got rid of JZip, but when I open a new tab, search.jzip.com is the home page. How do I fix this?

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I installed JZip awhile back for unzipping files. It became my Firefox home page. By researching online, I found a procedure to uninstall it and remove remaining files, but now it becomes home page when I open a new tab

I installed JZip awhile back for unzipping files. It became my Firefox home page. By researching online, I found a procedure to uninstall it and remove remaining files, but now it becomes home page when I open a new tab

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Follow all the steps just to be sure.


  1. Uninstall jZip (or Windows jZip or Windows jZip Toolbar) from Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs.
  2. Open Windows Explorer
    • Navigate to the C:\Program Files\jZip Toolbar folder
    • Double-click uninstall
    • Delete the Windows jZip Toolbar folder.
  3. In Firefox, remove the Add-on if it is there
    • Choose Add-ons > Extensions.
    • Select the jZip Toolbar entry if it's there and click the Uninstall button.
    • Close the Add-ons Manager tab/window
  4. In Firefox, reset preferences
    • Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
    • If you see a warning, accept it (promise to be careful)
    • Filter = jzip
    • In results in the bottom panel, right-click each entry and choose Reset.
  5. Restart Firefox.

There should have been options during the jZip installation; see image below.

An excellent free application to replace jZip (and the one that I have used for a very long time) that does not install all the "extras" is 7zip:


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Not related to your question, but...

You need to update some plug-ins:

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Follow all the steps just to be sure.


  1. Uninstall jZip (or Windows jZip or Windows jZip Toolbar) from Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs.
  2. Open Windows Explorer
    • Navigate to the C:\Program Files\jZip Toolbar folder
    • Double-click uninstall
    • Delete the Windows jZip Toolbar folder.
  3. In Firefox, remove the Add-on if it is there
    • Choose Add-ons > Extensions.
    • Select the jZip Toolbar entry if it's there and click the Uninstall button.
    • Close the Add-ons Manager tab/window
  4. In Firefox, reset preferences
    • Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
    • If you see a warning, accept it (promise to be careful)
    • Filter = jzip
    • In results in the bottom panel, right-click each entry and choose Reset.
  5. Restart Firefox.

There should have been options during the jZip installation; see image below.

An excellent free application to replace jZip (and the one that I have used for a very long time) that does not install all the "extras" is 7zip:


If this reply solves your problem, please click "Solved It" next to this reply when signed-in to the forum.



Not related to your question, but...

You need to update some plug-ins:

Modified by SafeBrowser

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I had previously followed these steps, but I had overlooked uninstalling Windows Jzip toolbar