Firefox – How to remove search providers in late 2014 Firefox

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The latest Firefox (now v. 34) has changed the way it administers search providers, so that they can be selected or un-selected, also new ones can be added, but they cannot be removed.

That is annoying me because I use the addon Context search which gives a context menu search option for the selected text which now shows all the search engines ever added, even the ones added multiple times.

How to remove (not just un-select) some search engines?

Best Answer

In Windows:

  • Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\browser\searchplugins
  • Remove all XML files except for the ones you want to keep

Here is mine:

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And my FF search choices now:

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In Ubuntu:

The XML files for the default search engines were located in /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/locale, while the ones added by the user in /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/some_profile_folder.default/searchplugins.

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