Firefox – Installed babylon in Firefox, now I can’t get rid of it

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While installing Digsby (an IM client) I accidentally installed the Babylon toolbar for Firefox. This was one version of Firefox ago and it didn't go away still (I had 3.5, and installed 4 and it still manifests itself).

And yes, I uninstalled the add-on, went to add/remove programs and uninstalled it there, edited about:config, searched for every instance of babylon and resetted the entries that had it and even deleted babylon.xml from Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins.

This solved most of my issues with babylon, but as I set my Firefox homepage to be the default (where you get about:home in the address bar) when I search something in the homepage's searchbox it still goes to babylon, for example: http://search.babylon.com/web/something?AF=15000&babsrc=browsersearch.

I can't find where this is set. Does anyone have an idea of how I can get rid of this?

Best Answer

You can try resetting all of the Firefox preferences to the default settings. According to Firefox's support page:

At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the Help menu and select Restart with Add-ons Disabled... Firefox will start up with the Firefox Safe Mode dialog.

For Windows XP, click the Help menu and select Restart with Add-ons Disabled...

1: To reset your user preferences, click to put a check mark by Reset all user preferences to Firefox defaults.

safe mode dialog

2: To apply your changes, click Make Changes and Restart.

Firefox will restart with your settings changed back to the defaults.

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