Removing search toolbars in Firefox?

Tracy_Lord · September 17, 2005, 10:28pm

In the last few days, a few search toolbars have added themselves to my drop-down thingy in Firefox. I usually have just Google, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, and Amazon, but now I’ve got things like “Answers.com”, “Creative Commons,” Yahoo, and my old nemesis eBay.

How do I remove them?

Mr.Blue_Sky · September 17, 2005, 10:47pm

I found this:

CodeBetter.com:

On Windows:

* Go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins
* Each search engine has two files; a .src and either a .png or a .gif file. All you have to do is delete the two files for the search engine you wish to remove (for example google.src and google.gif) and restart Firefox.

Mr.Blue_Sky · September 17, 2005, 10:48pm

I just tried it and it works like a charm!

Tracy_Lord · September 17, 2005, 11:13pm

He-ey, look at that! I’d been Googling “remove search toolbars” and the like all over the place, and my frustration was starting to reach critical levels. I should have known just to post here first and get an answer in fifteen minutes. Thank you!

rorty · September 17, 2005, 11:30pm

Thank you, Mr. Blue Sky. I have been trying to figure out how to do this for a while now. It’s odd that Firefox does not include a more obvious way to do this.