Ask.com and Firefox

[Madison Kelly]

George Nicol wrote:
> Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>> I've repeatedly removed 'Ask.com' from my Firefox search options.
>> It keeps coming back, though.
> 
> I can't duplicate your problem. If I pull down the Search Engines list
> (at the right of the Location bar), choose Manage Search Engines...
> (at the bottom of the list), select Ask.com > click Remove > OK, then
> it's removed from the list. When I close and restart Firefox, Ask.com
> does not come back. I'm running Firefox 3.0.7 on Ubuntu 8.04.
> 
> Ask.com - and their Toolbar especially - have caused removal problems
> in the past for Linux and Windows users alike. Some consider it to be
> foistware. Formerly, users had to go to Firefox's searchplugins sub-
> directory (in Windows, C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins),
> and delete both the Ask icon file and the Ask xml file. On my setup,
> if I go to /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins, I see only xml files
> (plus debsearch.gif and debsearch.src). YMMV.
> 
> You're comfortable with power tools so you may alternatively want to
> employ about:config ...carefully, if you search for ask.
> 
> What Firefox version are you using? Did you ever install the Ask.com
> Toolbar? This can happen inadvertently when installing other things,
> hence the foistware rap, and can complicate matters.

Firefox 3.0.7 on Ubuntu 8.10.

It's not so obvious as to come back right away. It seems to come back 
after a period of time... Perhaps when Firefox updates? I'll have to pay 
attention when future updates occur.

Thanks for the feedback. "Foistware" is a new one on me, and seems 
appropriate.

Madi
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