Important Notice: We're experiencing email notification issues. If you've posted a question in the community forums recently, please check your profile manually for responses while we're working to fix this.

On Monday the 3rd of March, around 5pm UTC (9am PT) users may experience a brief period of downtime while one of our underlying services is under maintenance.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

How do I delete preference entries in about:config?

  • 3 replies
  • 6 have this problem
  • 140 views
  • Last reply by cor-el

Datalyss
Datalyss
more options

I have some entries that were added when I installed Zoom Player. These entries refer to a search engine called "conduit". How do I get rid of these entries?

I have some entries that were added when I installed Zoom Player. These entries refer to a search engine called "conduit". How do I get rid of these entries?

Chosen solution

You can right-click prefs that you no longer need and use Reset in the right-click context menu. They will be removed on the next start of Firefox.

Alternatively you can edit them out of the prefs.js file.

Read this answer in context 👍 8

All Replies (3)

Swarnava Sengupta
Swarnava Sengupta
  • Locale Leader
more options

I suggest you to do a Reset, that will clean everything!

See Reset Firefox preferences to troubleshoot and fix problems

ideato
ideato
more options

Hello Datalyss, also try to use the SearchReset add-on to reset some preferences to the default values (the add-on only runs one tome and then uninstalls automatically).

thank you

cor-el
cor-el
  • Top 25 Contributor
  • Moderator
more options

Chosen Solution

You can right-click prefs that you no longer need and use Reset in the right-click context menu. They will be removed on the next start of Firefox.

Alternatively you can edit them out of the prefs.js file.

Modified by cor-el