Remove Search-Conduit in FireFox
I installed a program a while ago and since then, my search function in FireFox had been hijacked. All searches from the toolbar are wrapped up in a site search.conduit.com which is incredibly annoying. It does not perform well as a search tool and it tracks everything you do, like most search tools.
I have a suspicion either Vuze or PDF Creator may have been the culprits.
There’s little info about how to remove search conduit.
I found a dead-easy way to do it that seems to have worked.
Go to the upper right hand corner of your Firefox and you’ll see the search box.
Above shows the Google logo but before I fixed it it had that little magnifier there. Click on the drop down menu and you’ll see which search engines are enabled.
Delete any you don’t want but especially “Google Powered Search”. Don’t panic, this isn’t Google but the dreaded search.conduit tool.
Restart Firefox and all should be sweet.
If that doesn’t do the trick, start Firefox in Safe Mode and choose ‘reset search engines’. Then follow the steps above.
I’m SOOO glad to have my regular old Google search engine back in charge.
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thank you so much! I was changing my firefox persona when this happened…I am not sure how. Anyway, I wanted to say thanks because it is an easy fix I knew nothing about!
Thanks so much — my other searches on getting rid of this thing (including search conduit’s official uninstall guide, which was basically useless) didn’t get it done. This was easy.