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How To TOTALLY Remove Conduit From Firefox???

3/19/2008 4:06:30 PM

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I had installed 2 toolbars (Freecorder, Blueshirt) on 2 different PCs. As you all know I'm sure, it's modified the WebSearch function in Firefox.

I have now totally uninstalled the toolbars in Firefox from add-ons/extensions but Google Search pages are STILL conduit pages. I want conduit removed from my browser and PCs. I find it very intrusive that Conduit would make this so hard to remove! How Do I do it?

I've searched this forum for 'remove conduit' but have not found specific instructions. Please, someone help? Point me to instructions or????

Thank You,

Ken

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Re: How To TOTALLY Remove Conduit From Firefox???

3/25/2008 5:04:34 AM

Hi kenh !

I suggest you a simple way :
1. remove your FireFox
2. install again your FireFox from Free source
;D

Newbie

Re: How To TOTALLY Remove Conduit From Firefox???

3/24/2008 10:45:48 AM

None of that works. I'll try to describe the situation better in hope that I'll get a fix.

This occurs when I highlight a work/phrase on a web page, in Firefox, then Right Click and select "Search Web Search for "xxxx" from the context menu. When a Google page comes up it is the 'branded' Conduit google page. THAT is my problem, I want Conduit gone and the default UNbranded Google page back.

In about:config I have changed:

browser.search.defaulturl back to the plain google default
keyword:url back to default

BUT I still get the conduit/google search result page.

I'm guessing that conduit made more Firefox config changes????????

Could it be in here?
browser.search.param.Google.1.custom value = chrome://branding/content/searchconfig.properties

It's obvious that conduit has modified, re-directed, whatever....the default Google Search.

Please, how do I change that back? Or, where else can I get help with this?

Thanks,

Ken

Newbie

Re: How To TOTALLY Remove Conduit From Firefox???

4/9/2008 1:17:16 PM

Ok here's the fix:

Upper right in your Google search bar (Firefox), click the little arrow dropdown. Click on Manage Search Engines. Remove Websearch from the list and click Google to make it default.

Voila!!

Newbie

Re: How To TOTALLY Remove Conduit From Firefox???

1/30/2009 12:55:58 AM

[quote=ke]led 2 toolbars (Freecorder, Blueshirt) on 2 different PCs. As you all know I'm sure, it's modified the WebSearch function in Firefox.

I have now totally uninstalled the toolbars in Firefox from add-ons/extensions but Google Search pages are STILL conduit pages. I want conduit removed from my browser and PCs. I find it very intrusive that Conduit would make this so hard to remove! How Do I do it?

I've searched this forum for 'remove conduit' but have not found specific instructions. Please, someone help? Point me to instructions or????

Thank You,

Ken
[/quote]

Anyone else have this problem? In Firefox type [b]about:config[/b]

find : [b]keyword.URL[/b]
Change to something like:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

Done Deal ::)

Mega User

Re: How To TOTALLY Remove Conduit From Firefox???

3/24/2008 10:58:08 AM

Hi Ken,

Not sure where in about:config to look, so you may need to reinstall your toolbar to give this a try.

On your Conduit toolbar, click the logo menu (the down arrow just to the right of the logo), click on Toolbar Options. In Toolbar Options, click the Additional Settings tab. Put a check mark in the check box labeled "Enable switch back to default Search Engine.", and click OK.

Hope that helps.

Mega User

Re: How To TOTALLY Remove Conduit From Firefox???

4/10/2008 2:15:21 AM

Daft question.. do you have toolbars installed for IE as well?