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theonlysaneone · 06-01-2007, 12:51 PM

My sister downloads a bunch of crap, and somehow we got this stupid toolbar on Firefox. It was called MyWebSearch or something, and I got rid of it with Spybot.

Unfortunately, it left a giant white space at the top of the page, and it's REALLY pissing me off. Any ideas on how to get rid of it?

graphitesmoothie · 06-01-2007, 01:02 PM

Have you tried to see if there's uninstall in your control panel for the toolbar?

theonlysaneone · 06-01-2007, 01:48 PM

I checked, and it's not there. At least, not that I can recognize.

joe10 · 06-01-2007, 01:58 PM

Well make your sister use IE from now on

graphitesmoothie · 06-01-2007, 02:17 PM

I'm not sure if this would definitely solve the problem, but what I would do is completely uninstall Firefox and reinstall it again.

kalfeer · 06-01-2007, 04:06 PM

Sounds like your sister downloaded one or more "Fun Web" products. Joy. I do hope that uninstall/reinstall Firefox fixes the problem, because the manual remove of MyWebSearch is extremely nasty work, involving nicking individual files, and registry entries.

Spaz · 06-01-2007, 04:47 PM

Try making a new firefox profile. http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new

theonlysaneone · (This post was last modified: 06-01-2007 06:06 PM by theonlysaneone.)

kalfeer Wrote:Sounds like your sister downloaded one or more "Fun Web" products. Joy. I do hope that uninstall/reinstall Firefox fixes the problem, because the manual remove of MyWebSearch is extremely nasty work, involving nicking individual files, and registry entries.

Yep, that's exactly what it was. I HATE her so much right now. Is uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox or creating a new profile going to make me have to redownload Ad-block and put all that together again, put in all of my Neopets ad removal and the editing there, and redo the stuff I did today for pipelining? If so I'm going to KILL her.

This actually isn't the first time this has happened either. Last time re-installing Firefox worked, although I'm not sure how I'm going to re-download it if I uninstall it.

graphitesmoothie · 06-01-2007, 06:17 PM

Download it before uninstalling and make sure you don't forget where you save it. Toungue

kalfeer · 06-01-2007, 06:19 PM

theonlysaneone Wrote:Is uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox or creating a new profile going to make me have to redownload Ad-block and put all that together again, put in all of my Neopets ad removal and the editing there, and redo the stuff I did today for pipelining? If so I'm going to KILL her.

I do not use Ad-block, so not sure about that, but I have unin and reinstalled before and managed to keep my extensions, so the uninstall obviously leaves some settings in place. Creating a new profile, however, could actually have the effect, since it creates a new identity.