domingo, 5 de agosto de 2012

Remove Babylon Search tab

The other day by mistake (it was late at night, not to mention the hour), accidentally installed Babylon toolbar and then tried removing it.

After struggling (deleted from progeams and features, cleaned registries, removed all found entries possible) searching the web, I thought of contacting Babylon support and was given this solution for my browser (Firefox):

To remove the search new tab in Firefox please use the following steps:
• In the address bar write : about:config
• remove the babylon “search.babylon.com” from the |keyword.URL”
• change the search.babylon.com to any of the search provider you want example: (www.google.com)
• remove the babylon “search.babylon.com” from the |extensions.babylontoolbar.newtaburl”
• change the search.babylon.com to any of the search provider you want example: (www.google.com)

You may also want to try this I found on this blog:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/773310

To revert to Google as your preferred search engine, please do the following.

  1. In the location bar, type about:config and hit Enter.
  2. In the filter at the top, type: Babylon.
  3. Double click it and remove whatever's in there and replace it with http://www.google.com/search?q= 
  4. It's possible that Babylon will add itself to more than one place in about:config. Therefore, after completing the above steps, type "babylon" in the filter at the top. For every instance where you see a setting with that name in it, right click it and choose Modify and then Reset. 
  5. Then close Firefox and restart it.
The URL to add in "keyword.URL" becomes a link in this post, so right click it and choose "Copy Link Location" to copy it to the Windows clipboard. Then hit CTRL+V to paste it. Saves you having to type the whole thing. To reset your home page, do the following. Go to the site you want to set as your homepage. Click the orange Firefox button and go to Options | Options | General (Firefox 4.0.x and above). Go to Tools | Options | General (Previous version of Firefox). Make sure it says "Show My Homepage" in the first dropdown menu. Click the button called "Use Current Pages" to set the homepage to the one you have on the screen. Babylon search and toolbar will be installed with an IM chat client called Digsby if you don't opt out of it during the installation. See the info at the foot of this page: http://techshali.com/digsby-instant-messenger-and-email-manager-social-networks/