how do I make remove the intrusive Bing search feature.
If I make a new window firefox start page comes up. That's great. But when I start a new blank tab the intrusive bing search option comes up.
Ex. Search the web: Textbox and then "enhanced by Bing"
I have checked plug ins and do not see a Bing addon. There is no URL in the new tab to change in
I am so sick and tired of installations, sites, etc wanting to change in the about:config pane.
HELP PLEASE.
your book marks and search engines with out your permission. NO check mark for an addition should be automatically check and MS should know this above all others.
Can Firefox block these features or automatically UNCHECK all option until you as a user checks them? I dont know if that is possible but after years of this nonsense it is past annoying.
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I had this same problem, after a while, changing profiles etc, discovered that I had installed an extension called "Interactive Personas" while trying a particular persona, since I didn't like it I unstalled it, but this persona was reponsable for this extension, when I found it, opened it's options, and there was a check box: "Aways searh for keywords with Bing" so I just unstalled the extension, and Google was back online! Try checking your recently added extensions, might help you as it helped me.
have you tried clicking «Tools» → «Add-ons» on the Firefox menu bar and seeing if you find «bing» in the list of add-ons ? If you do, click it, after which an «Uninstall» button should be displayed. Click this button ; you will then be asked if you really want to uninstall «bing», to which you of course answer in the affirmative. You will then be informed that to effectuate the uninstallation, Firefox must be re-loaded and asked if you want to restart Firefox. Agree to this, and Firefox will then close and restart. You should now no longer see the bing toolbar....
Sanjay
This worked for me with earlier versions of Firefox http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2008/01/13/change-default-search-in-firefox/
This article talks about getting rid of google but I used the same method to get rid of bing. Be careful, bing sneaks in when you update adobe or java if you're not careful to uncheck the bing box.
Изменено sallymander
I started having the issue today and figured it out tonight. I went to Firefox menu; Add-ons; Then the little gear-looking pull down menu on the top right. Chose "View Recent Updates" and Bing was there. I removed it from there and it was finally gone. All this AFTER I had already removed the start toolbar and changed back my opening page. Whew! Hope that this helps someone else!
I had the same issue and this was probably caused by the StartNow search toolbar that was piggybacked on a utility package I downloaded from CNET.com. (There really should be some kind of rule against doubly duplicitous check boxes and agreements. One "no" answer should be enough- do these companies think they are creating goodwill with these annoyances?)
Thing is, I disabled and removed the Start Now toolbar but the Bing Search page still defaulted when I opened a new tab.
However, once I closed down Firefox and reopened it, the problem corrected as in the answer just above.
Изменено B9000
Click TOOLS>ADDONS>EXTENSIONS look for "START NOW TOOLBAR" then click "UNINSTALL". Restart firefox. Case solved.