Its really annoying its long ago that i accidentally installed ICQ tool bar while installing some free software which was integrated as the part of the program, though i uninstalled the application ICQ toolbar and deleted left over stuff from program files and other places, but whenever i tried to search from address bar browser was actually invoking ICQ search which was really pain..
Quick search on net i was able to get rid of that annoying bastard below are the steps on how to fix it in firefox
First of all remove the ICQ Toolbar addon from the Firefox
1. Tools-->Addons--"ICQ Toolbar" Uninstall it
2. Go to programfiles in your computer locate ICQ installation folder and delete it
To remove entries from Firefox
1. Start firefox and open a new tab
2. in address bar type "about:config" and hit enter
3. Now in the open window in filter box type "ICQ"
4. Now Right click on all the entries that has "ICQ" click on reset as shown in below pic
Now restart the Firefox browser and that should fix the problem..
To get rid of the icq toolbar in internet explorer follow below steps:
Removing ICQ toolbar in internet explorer is easy compared to firefox but its a bit tricky we can either uninstall it by using a uninstall tool and other method is to manually editing the system registries
1. First method: To remove it using the tool download this exe and simply run it.
2. Second method: is registry editing be careful and do this at your own risk!
hit startbutton-->click "run"-->type "Regedit" without quotes now registry editor get launched
Now navigate to below key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs
Right click on "tabs" and in the menu select "Modify" and "Edit string" and replace the "Value data" box with below string "res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm"
though i used the uninstall tool to remove the ICQ if it aint works you can use second method.
Quick search on net i was able to get rid of that annoying bastard below are the steps on how to fix it in firefox
First of all remove the ICQ Toolbar addon from the Firefox
1. Tools-->Addons--"ICQ Toolbar" Uninstall it
2. Go to programfiles in your computer locate ICQ installation folder and delete it
To remove entries from Firefox
1. Start firefox and open a new tab
2. in address bar type "about:config" and hit enter
3. Now in the open window in filter box type "ICQ"
4. Now Right click on all the entries that has "ICQ" click on reset as shown in below pic
Now restart the Firefox browser and that should fix the problem..
To get rid of the icq toolbar in internet explorer follow below steps:
Removing ICQ toolbar in internet explorer is easy compared to firefox but its a bit tricky we can either uninstall it by using a uninstall tool and other method is to manually editing the system registries
1. First method: To remove it using the tool download this exe and simply run it.
2. Second method: is registry editing be careful and do this at your own risk!
hit startbutton-->click "run"-->type "Regedit" without quotes now registry editor get launched
Now navigate to below key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs
Right click on "tabs" and in the menu select "Modify" and "Edit string" and replace the "Value data" box with below string "res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm"
though i used the uninstall tool to remove the ICQ if it aint works you can use second method.
3 comments:
the above method worked a treat for me for Firefox. thanks mate. I tried a few other methods that appeared higher in the google search results but they didnt work. so I thought its worthiwhile opening up this page again and leaving a comment for others who had same issue as me.
This is the link for the icq uninstaller
http://www.icq.com/help/view_faq.php?faq_id=8010
Thank you for this simple fix! The damn ICQ searches from my address bar have been frustrating me for weeks. I should have known to check about:config, anyway, thanks a lot!
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