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How to remove search engines from the Firefox search box

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.

Published Dec 29 2004, 07:13 AM by darrell

Comments

Sean said:

so simple, I should have been able to figure this one out on my own! but thanks for filling me in

# December 31, 2004 6:55 PM

Darrell said:

It's not as simple as it should be, but then again, it's only a version 1.0 product.

# January 1, 2005 10:12 AM

Travis said:

Thanks! I couldn't figure it out because I was looking in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\.

# January 6, 2005 4:23 PM

Davetta said:

Thank you, because I was sitting here going "duhhhhh...". :)

# January 9, 2005 4:07 AM

Michael said:

Thank you, because I wasn't sitting here going "duhhhh...". :)

Your page ranked number 3 on my Google search.

# January 15, 2005 6:21 PM

Steve said:

Excellent. You were ranked number 1 for me.

# January 29, 2005 3:23 PM

Darrell said:

Excellent news Steve!

# January 29, 2005 4:00 PM

Joe said:

Not sure if anyone posted a procedure for the Mac fiends (I mean fans).

1. Go to Applications\Firefox
2. Right click and select "Show Package Contents"
3. Go to Mac OS\searchplugins
4. Delete the .src file and the .gif/.png file for the engine you want to remove

# February 8, 2005 10:56 AM