Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Remove search.conduit.com or Ask.com from Firefox


Prevent Firefox to search using search.conduit.com. This search engine doesn't have any add-on, any extension, any toolbar, any application, but your search automatically get replied through this, which it not bit, but a lot irritating. You type a keyword in URL bar and hit enter, thinking that Google will return to your query, but this page show up, which doesn't have even good search result, for name only enhance by Google. Actually these type are search engines present modified result from Google Search, with lots of advertisement on them.



Follow these Steps to remove this from Firefox.


Step 1: Go to about:config 

Step 2: Press I'll be careful, I promise! Button.


Step 3: Locate browser.search.defaulturl here.


Step 4: Change it's value to http://google.com/search?q=

Step 5: Now you are done, you didn't even need to restart your Browser. :)

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