How to remove search engines from the Firefox search box

Posted by darrellnorton on December 29, 2004

On Windows:

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.

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Dan says:

March 2, 2005 at 5:16 am

Thank you very very much Joe.
Joe says:

February 8, 2005 at 3:56 pm

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
Steve says:

January 29, 2005 at 8:23 pm

Excellent. You were ranked number 1 for me.
Michael says:

January 15, 2005 at 11:21 pm

Thank you, because I wasn’t sitting here going "duhhhh…".

Your page ranked number 3 on my Google search.
Davetta says:

January 9, 2005 at 9:07 am

Thank you, because I was sitting here going "duhhhhh…".
Travis says:

January 6, 2005 at 9:23 pm

Thanks! I couldn’t figure it out because I was looking in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\.
Darrell says:

January 1, 2005 at 3:12 pm

It’s not as simple as it should be, but then again, it’s only a version 1.0 product.
Sean says:

December 31, 2004 at 11:55 pm

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