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How to remove mint custom search in firefox

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux Mint

 Question: How to remove mint custom search in firefox?



Answer:

Method 1

To remove the mint custom search plugin (google) from Search Engine List (the bar located at top right corner), go to ‘Mange Search Engine list’ then remove ‘google’. Next, go to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ and add a new google search engine plugin.

 

Remove Google from  THE  search engin manger

 

Method 2

 To remove the mint custom search from address bar search, enter ‘about:config’ in the address bar. Then enter ‘keyword.URL’ in the filter. Finally, modify its value to

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&;oe=utf-8&q=

 

Enjoy

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Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.
  • jediafr

    Congratulations ! you’d just showed a way to cut revenue from the Mint Team without even explain to the users the consequence for the Mint Project !

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Wow, great. That’s what i’m waiting for too. I want to make DC with LDAP ( Active Directory alternative) and SAMBA on Ubuntu. :-)

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Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you rules!!! all the other “help” in google are useless… yours was very helpful. Thanks again

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Great ! we have another another master trick :-)

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Just delete the space after the slash (/) it will work.

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