Reinstall or edit broken search engine setting
The Creative Commons Beta search engine addon seems to be broken for me in Firefox, taking me to a 404 page each time. If I try reinstalling it from the Creative Commons site I get a popup message: "Firefox could not install the search plugin from "http://search.creativecommons.org/ccsearch.xml" because an engine with the same name already exists."
Is there any way to remove this plugin so that I can try reinstalling it? It's not listed under Tools > Addons. The Firefox help pages only tell me how to hide search engines, not how to actually remove them.
I'm using Firefox 34.0.5 under Windows 7, everything apparently up to date.
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Hello TimTylor, with CLOSED firefox, seek for an .xml file of the searchplugin in searchplugins folder inside Firefox profile folder and delete it manually.
(All default search engines plugins exist in the "browser\searchplugins" folder in Firefox program folder or Firefox installation directory, but all custom search engines plugins exist inside firefox profile folder:-))
thank you
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Windows: Start > Control Panel > Uninstall Programs. Mac: Open the "Applications" folder. Linux: Check your user manual.
Chosen Solution
Hello TimTylor, with CLOSED firefox, seek for an .xml file of the searchplugin in searchplugins folder inside Firefox profile folder and delete it manually.
(All default search engines plugins exist in the "browser\searchplugins" folder in Firefox program folder or Firefox installation directory, but all custom search engines plugins exist inside firefox profile folder:-))
thank you
Thanks, and sorry to be so slow coming back. That worked. :) Alas, the search plugin's still 404ing, but I guess that's a problem at Creative Commons' end.
Open your Search Manager. Remove the bad engine, Now go to the web site. Open the Search Manager, and re-install their search.