Comments on: Remove ask.com toolbar on Firefox / IE

By: agustino

agustino — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:28:06 +0000

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By: This Worked

This Worked — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:43:07 +0000

Here is what I did and it worked.

Firefox

went to about:config
then changed any string that had Ask.com to google.com (right click modify)

Then for the remaining toolbar on top of the browse.
Click the small triangle on the left at end of search box. Then select Manage Search Engines. Move up your referred search engine and remove the one you do not want (Ask.com). Click OK. This should help.

Cheers

By: Alex Petre

Alex Petre — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:46:03 +0000

thanks it works .

By: STEPHEN KING

STEPHEN KING — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:42:01 +0000

I’D LIKE TO UNISTALL ASK FROM GOOGLE, HELP.

By: stephen king

stephen king — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:33:06 +0000

help! how do you unistall from goggle? i don’t even know how ask got installed. I’M NOT THAT GREAT @ THIS, BUT WOULD YOU AGREE THIS HASSLE IS UNETHICAL (A PAIN IN THE ***)

By: Jennah

Jennah — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:38:00 +0000

oh my godd!! i gave up on removing the ask toolbar 2 years ago! i did everything i could and it didnt work! the system said i had removed it, but it was still there!
And this actually worked!!! im soo happy right now! cause i hated the ask search engine sooo much
thankss!

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:22:08 +0000

I cannot remove the Ask toolbar. I removed it thru add/remove but it’s stopping me with error code: error 1316.A network error occurred while attempting to read file C:\windows\installer\asktoolbar.msi
Cannot reinstall because it tells me it is already installed.
Any help?
Thanks

By: sircapp

sircapp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:59 +0000

ME 2 – Its been annoying the hell out of me for days until I found your instructions.

Bloody beauty !!

By: WildRumpus

WildRumpus — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:52:33 +0000

ME2!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: JuJubee

JuJubee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:40:36 +0000

THANK YOU!!! I’ve been working on this for over two hours now and, with your help, finally removed the evil ask.com!!!

By: jt snow

jt snow — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:21:45 +0000

Very Awesome, this issue was annoying and i couldn’ t see where the redirects were coming from since i saw no add -ons and no programs , toolbars to uninstall.

By: jason walters

jason walters — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:27:45 +0000

couldnt find the one that said crome….typed “ask” into the filter and changed the startup.url one that said ask to google url…this worked. ask.com I wish someone would torch thier mainframe

By: bas

bas — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:13:07 +0000

tried all of those above couldn’t find extension. snipet.chrome though , uninstalled in control panel , reset browser, deleted ask.com from program files and all instructions from how to.com anything else to get rid of this menace

By: Toby1

Toby1 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:47:35 +0000

Excellent accurate and effective – thanks very much

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:04:00 +0000

Even :config is getting hijacked by ask.com
Lame

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:46:38 +0000

hey, I found everything :)

thanks for advice

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:05:58 +0000

“On the address bar type about:config” where should I write anithing or where can I find this?

and then – wher ca I change these settings in 2nd, 3rd and 4th point?

and sorry for my bad english :(

Simon

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:10:08 +0000

Thanks, great info. Sorted now.

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:42:36 +0000

This is good info. Even better, rather than manually typing in the replacement values, you can right click on the keyword.URL and other settings and choose “Reset”