In the dialogue window of "Manage Search Engine List," the "Restore Defautls" button is grayed out!
Hi,
I use Firefox 6.0.1 on Windows 7.
I installed Free Desktop Clock 2.37 from Drive Software, and then Firefox was hi-jacked, though I carefully chose the custom installaion.
Edit: Free Desktop Clock itself does not hi-jack Firefox. It's another program (name forgotten) bundled with Free Desktop Clock that did it, adding a toolbar, changing the homepage, changing the default search engine, etc. Actually, those forced alterations can be changed back easily, such as a resetting of the "keyword.url" pref. So, "hi-jack" may be a description that's too strong.
Anyway, I have managed to clean it up -- unsolicited toolbar, forced homepage, forced default search engine, etc.
But there is still one problem.
In the dialogue window of Manage Search Engine List, which appears when you click the drop arrow on the left of the Search Bar and then click Manage Search Engines, the Restore Defaults button is disabled (grayed out).
How can that button be re-enabled?
Thanks.
Modified by drkh
Chosen solution
I finally realize that the "Restore Defaults" button is enabled only when any of the default search providers is removed. The purpose of that button is to add again all the missing default search providers. It's not, as I misunderstood, used to remove user-added search providers.
So, I was wrong to blame Free Desktop Clock, no matter how evil it is.
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Hi,
Is Free Desktop Clock still listed? If not this may be because the listed search engines are the defaults, so there may be nothing to restore. If you manually added other search engines, you may have to reinstall those separately. Please see Included search engines and Removing a search engine here.
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Modified by Vivek
Chosen Solution
I finally realize that the "Restore Defaults" button is enabled only when any of the default search providers is removed. The purpose of that button is to add again all the missing default search providers. It's not, as I misunderstood, used to remove user-added search providers.
So, I was wrong to blame Free Desktop Clock, no matter how evil it is.
Do you still have the default search engines (*.xml) in the searchplugins folder in the Firefox program folder (C:\Program files\Mozilla Firefox)? If not then reinstall Firefox on top of the current installation.
Yes, all the .xml files of the default search engines are still in the searchplugins folder. Also, in the drop-down list of search engines for the Search bar, all the defafult ones are still there. So, it's normal for the "Restore Defaults" button to be grayed out. I was wrong to think that's not normal.
Try to delete search.sqlite and search.json in the Firefox Profile Folder.
You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder