bayrider Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 i have absolutely no use for some of the search engines in the search bar ie. Amazon, Yahoo, Creative Commons etc. Is there a way to remove the ones i dont want and keep the ones that are of use to me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukeicon Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins delete the ones that you dont want, or you can change the text in the .src files so that it searches different search engines or sites. Use notepad to open these files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bush Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 go to your firefox install folder. e.g. c:/program files/mozilla firefox find there "searchplugins" folder and delete the ones you don't want. but, remember, that each time you update/reinstall firefox they will be back, as they are mozilla's sponsors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brent3000 Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 thats one of the good things about FF :D it can have more stuff u like added and stuff u dont like removed :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayrider Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 thx for ur help ppl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 I was going to post about this. I have just updated my copy of Firefox to 1.5 beta. Now they add yet another useless search engine: Answers.com. Do every single Firefox user visit Answers.com? Yahoo.com? Creative? Amazon? Ebay?. They should let us decide which engines we want to install at setup. Or they should only include the most used essential search bars which is Google, Dictionary, Wikipedia (maybe not), etc. This is my rant. I am tired of having to delete those useless engines, every time I install Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rablet Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 I was going to post about this. I have just updated my copy of Firefox to 1.5 beta. Now they add yet another useless search engine: Answers.com. Do every single Firefox user visit Answers.com? Yahoo.com? Creative? Amazon? Ebay?. They should let us decide which engines we want to install at setup. Or they should only include the most used essential search bars which is Google, Dictionary, Wikipedia (maybe not), etc.This is my rant. I am tired of having to delete those useless engines, every time I install Firefox. 586503872[/snapback] Are they really that much in your way? However, I think they should add a "Remove search engine"-button somewhere, it's a pain having to delete the files manually, and most end-users don't even know how to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em_te Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Plus there's the confusion caused by the search bar choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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