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Home page - http://search.jzip.com/ overriding my choice. How to avoid ?

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I dowloaded Jzip but now whenever opening Firefox my homepage is ... search.jzip.com. I change the home page to the site of my choice but Firefox ignores this and shows the serarch.jzip site.

I presume they have installed something that runs whenever I load Firefox, but what ???

I dowloaded Jzip but now whenever opening Firefox my homepage is ... search.jzip.com. I change the home page to the site of my choice but Firefox ignores this and shows the serarch.jzip site. I presume they have installed something that runs whenever I load Firefox, but what ???

Réiteach roghnaithe

Try to do the following:

1) Go to C:/Program Files/Windows jZip Toolbar

  • In the folder there is an Uninstall file for the toolbar, Execute it
  • Delete the folder

2) Go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins

  • Delete JzipWebSearch.xml and SearchResults.xml files
  • If they are not there, Search for it in C:\ drive
  • Delete the folders

3) Open Firefox and type in the address bar about:config

  • When you see a warning, click I'll be careful, I promise
  • Type jzip in the Filter bar
  • "Reinitialize" (right-click and click Reset) all the values with jzip that are shown

4) Close Firefox and Restart => No more jzip startup page

Check and tell if its working.

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Type about:config in the Location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key. When you see a warning, click I'll be careful, I promise! button.

  • Preferences that have been modified are shown as bold (user set).
  • Preferences can be Reset to the default or changed via the right-click context menu.

-> In the Filter bar, type jzip

  • This will show all jzip related preferences.
  • Reset all jzip related Preferences to their Default values (right-click a preference and click Reset)

-> Close the about:config tab and then Restart Firefox.

Check and tell if its working.

Athraithe ag Hasan ar

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Thanks. That changes it for the current session but when restarting Firefox the config file again shows search.jzip

Are their any Registry entries that Firefox checks priuor to opening ?

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Réiteach Roghnaithe

Try to do the following:

1) Go to C:/Program Files/Windows jZip Toolbar

  • In the folder there is an Uninstall file for the toolbar, Execute it
  • Delete the folder

2) Go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins

  • Delete JzipWebSearch.xml and SearchResults.xml files
  • If they are not there, Search for it in C:\ drive
  • Delete the folders

3) Open Firefox and type in the address bar about:config

  • When you see a warning, click I'll be careful, I promise
  • Type jzip in the Filter bar
  • "Reinitialize" (right-click and click Reset) all the values with jzip that are shown

4) Close Firefox and Restart => No more jzip startup page

Check and tell if its working.

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Brilliant. Thanks