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Saturday, May 16, 2009

How to remove Ask.com from Firefox

I got very pissed off when I installed bit-torrent software and it automatically changed firefox's default search engine to this filthy creature. After uninstalling and removing anything related to ask.com, I still had one issue: the defualt search engine used for the keywords I put in the address bar was ask.com !! Here is the solution to take care of the last bit of its defilement:

1. Open firefix
2. in the address bar type: about:config
3. in the filter menu type: keyword.URL
4. Change the value to: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=

This is very sad to see a company forces people to use their product. They are blind to see that more people are refering to their products as trojans rather than search engines...

posted by Unknown at 8:29 AM

37 Comments:

  • Thank you Nipon.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:48 AM  

  • You are welcome =)

    By Blogger Unknown, at 11:12 AM  

  • Thanks so much for this! I'd gotten so tired of ask.com search results and not finding a solution to this that I actually abandoned Firefox altogether and started using Chrome only. Thank you again!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:30 PM  

  • Thanks a lot for the info. I was pretty annoyed with this as well. The search results from ask.com were actually pretty good. Even so their url has been blocked on my network and any other network i have access to. Guess they should rethink their marketing strategy.

    By Anonymous ThRaider, at 5:59 AM  

  • This was very Helpful... Thanks a million.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:01 AM  

  • THANK YOU!!!!!!!! you saved me alot of time i found your post after 2 min of looking into this problem. you rock!

    By Blogger Unknown, at 7:45 AM  

  • My problem is that when I go to http://www.daltondailycitizen.com/, and click on an article, it displays the article page for about 2 seconds before redirecting to an ask.com page about the article. It's annoying, and I've tried every fix to no avail. BTW, it doesn't happen when I use IE.

    By Blogger Unknown, at 11:34 AM  

  • thanks lots

    By Blogger Unknown, at 12:02 PM  

  • thank you very much i was so puzzled with ask.com that i prefer to use google chrome instead of firefox but now what you told worked well for me again thank you

    By Blogger Unknown, at 9:12 AM  

  • Thank you so much Nipon, saved me from the asylum.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:25 PM  

  • THANKYOU SO MUCHHH YOU HELPED ME SO MUCH! SHORT SIMPLE AND HELPFUL!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:25 AM  

  • Thank you SO MUCH, I felt so violated when I saw the ask.com toolbar invade my clean browser.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:12 PM  

  • Thank you so much Nipon!

    By Blogger The End, at 1:23 AM  

  • thanks dude ask.com is a pain in the neck

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:27 AM  

  • I hate to be forced.
    ASK.com sneaks in.
    First I decided to give up FIREFOX.
    Then, decided to fight back.
    I uninstalled/reinstalled firefox
    with clearing history during installation. WORKED.
    This method is easyer. I wish I have
    seen it before.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:01 PM  

  • THANK You!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:51 PM  

  • Thank you...

    By Anonymous chandru, at 6:23 AM  

  • Thank you.. I was giving up on Firefox and going back to IE !

    By Blogger Unknown, at 2:52 PM  

  • i tried everything NOTHING worked before your help that was SO annoying!!! THANKS YOU BRO!!!

    By Blogger Benny, at 11:17 AM  

  • The only use I had for Ask.com was to find this how to. Kinda ironic

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:59 PM  

  • Thank you so much, Nipon. :D

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:12 PM  

  • Thank you very much Nipon

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:08 AM  

  • I followed the instructor up to insert the new value. It was inserted into the field but then it wasn't clear how to activate -- i.e., carriage return?

    By Blogger PJH, at 6:47 PM  

  • Thank you!! Worked perfectly!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:06 AM  

  • So true! These idiots fail because of these activities only.

    Anyway, thanks for the tip. I though there will be some visible option to change it back to google and missed the 'config' thing.


    Atul Kakrana

    By Blogger Atul kakrana, at 10:13 AM  

  • ASK sucks big time... where are the hacker-attacks when you need them?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:48 PM  

  • I've spent way too much time on this £$@$£@£ ASK problem : (

    I've tried to reinstall and I've tried this to no avail. After changing the value as described, it reappears when I restart Firefox.

    After this ASK, should be barred from appearing in Firefox alltogether!!

    By Blogger Nissen & Co, at 11:52 AM  

  • Big thanks, that ask.com sucks hard.
    I tried to search something but all I got was sponsored results with no use.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:35 PM  

  • Thank you Nipon. You got magic. Saved my hate&love relationship with Firefox.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:08 AM  

  • Thanks a million!

    By Blogger Chris Beckley, at 2:32 PM  

  • hope it works, thanks anyway cause I learned i'm not alone in feelbad.ask.com

    uninst/ installed ff9. Hidden file put a.c back Used your cure. a.c came back. Perhaps older ff versions didn't need "save" or "apply" tried tool icon and hit modify. Gave me a "save" button.

    ff chiefs are co-opereatring with this Horsey. Possibly they took off the apply button after your cure

    By Blogger john, at 4:16 PM  

  • at least 5 other lines need your cure in ff9 ...Word verification not true

    By Blogger john, at 5:22 PM  

  • thanks

    By Blogger Vishnu Jadhav, at 10:02 PM  

  • Thanks - it pissed me off - I downloaded an Avery template and it didn't even ask to change my search engine in firefox.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:35 AM  

  • Thank u!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:55 AM  

  • Hi, Nipon. I tried it but didnot work and again ask.com appeared. after restart of firefox brower. I have tried another method and it worked too.
    open firefox trouble shooting and click reset firefox and its all over. ask.com never appears. Now Ask.com but earlier I sufferred from baylon search and it was too difficult to remove that search engine.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:35 PM  

  • Thank you SO much! I was about to throw my computer out of the window! Have never experienced a search engine more terrible AND annoying as Ask.com!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:19 PM  

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