hello, this change doesn't come from mozilla - please look into your list of installed extensions, probably one of them is adware...

Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page

firefox has multiple build in search engines all along, you are free to choose whichever you prefer from a drop down menu in the search field.

Firefox has has come with a Bing search plugin for quite awhile now. IIRC, it started being one of the default 7 search plugins back in Firefox 4.0.

If that search engine has its' own toolbar or its' own search "window" (not merely in the Search Bar) that would be from some type of add-on

Note as from Firefox 23 whatever search engine you select on the search bar. becomes your default search engine until it is deselected and will therefore be used for searches from your address bar also.

Hi seniorlady,

The Mozilla Firefox added, search bar option, to use bing may be easily removed if you expect it will not be required.

• the search bar is by default on the top right
  1. click the down arrow-head adjacent to the search bars, iconforthe search engine.
  2. Click on Manage Search Engines ...
  3. In the Manage Search Engines List dialogue: click on and select Bing
  4. Click on the [Remove] then [Done] buttons.
• See Use popular search suggestions in the Firefox Search bar
• Or if it is some addon you have see
  Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page

If you do not keep changes after a restart or otherwise have problems with preferences, see:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

I'm 81 years old and am not "tek" wise. I am fond of Fire Fox and all of my "helpers" Thank you....ALL of you. From, Senior Lady

Thanks for posting back.

Did you manage to either get rid of Bing, or stop it interfering with your use of Firefox ?

I will take it that your problem is ok now; unless we hear any more from you.

It is solved. Thank you for your help and concern. Senior Lady

Hey I just experienced a complete high jack from Bing on all of my web browsers, Firefox included. For me it happened when I finally allowed uTorrent to install an update it had been nagging me to do. It installed a program called "Search Protect" by Conduit which took over all browsers and made itself default in all of them. After all the time spent trying to get it off I figured these details may help someone else out. Apparently the latest DivX update will also install this same problematic program. I found this step by step removal instruction page to be helpful in getting the areas I had not yet thought to tackle: http://malwaretips.com/blogs/conduit-search-removal/ NOTE: I did not use his specific adware/malware cleaners. Just the ones I had already on my computer along with all of the other manual removal steps he guided me through. Computer is now back to normal after much wasted time and effort.