Re: search engine hijacked

2017-01-16 Thread EE 

Jim wrote:

I got up this morning and found that my search engine has been switched
to "duckduckgo".

No matter what I switched to for search in preferences, duckduckgo came
up as a search engine.

I went to the screen under search engine precedence, and moved
duckduckgo down to last.  It still came up as my search engine.

Finally, I deleted it from the list of available search engines under
preferences and that got rid of it (for that user profile in SM).

Reading up on this subject, it appears I may have updated or installed
something, and didn't see a box checked to make duckduckgo my default
search engine (my bad).  But there isn't a good explanation how to get
rid of it completely (says to uninstall the app but doesn't give a good
idea what that app is).

I notice my other SM profiles still come up with duckduckgo as search
engine.  Any ideas (besides deleting that as an available search engine
in each profile)?

Running SM 2.46, W10, adblock plus, noscripts, and Norton Security Suite.


If I change the search engine in the search bar on my toolbar, SeaMonkey 
uses that search engine with search terms in the address bar and with 
selecting something on a page, and searching for that.


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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread Paul B. Gallagher 

stan wrote:

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Jim wrote:


I got up this morning and found that my search engine has been
switched to "duckduckgo".

...

Reading up on this subject, it appears I may have updated or
installed something, and didn't see a box checked to make
duckduckgo my default search engine (my bad). But there isn't a
good explanation how to get rid of it completely (says to
uninstall the app but doesn't give a good idea what that app
is).


Not your fault, it's a known issue. Everyone who upgrades to SM
2.46 seems to have it.

Easiest solution is to delete DDG from the list at Edit |
Preferences | Browser | Internet Search | Manage Search Engines.
Then you can choose the desired search engine and SM will stop
overruling you.

DuckDuckStop!!


Unfortunately it does not work! I can select new search engine but
DDG is still coming up.


Really? Even though it's not on the list of search engines?? Are you 
sure you really deleted it? Let's make absolutely sure.


Delete DDG as described above. Clear cache and cookies: Edit | 
Preferences | Privacy & Security | Private Data, check the desired boxes 
and click the button, "Clear now."


Close SeaMonkey completely (use Windows Task Manager | Processes to be 
sure it's really gone). Start SM and go to the pref described above to 
see what search engines are listed. DDG should not be on the list. Is 
it? Really? If it is gone as expected, make your choice and then try 
searching from the location bar.


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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread WaltS48 

On 12/29/2016 11:52 AM, Jim wrote:
I got up this morning and found that my search engine has been 
switched to "duckduckgo".


No matter what I switched to for search in preferences, duckduckgo 
came up as a search engine.


I went to the screen under search engine precedence, and moved 
duckduckgo down to last.  It still came up as my search engine.


Finally, I deleted it from the list of available search engines under 
preferences and that got rid of it (for that user profile in SM).


Reading up on this subject, it appears I may have updated or installed 
something, and didn't see a box checked to make duckduckgo my default 
search engine (my bad).  But there isn't a good explanation how to get 
rid of it completely (says to uninstall the app but doesn't give a 
good idea what that app is).


I notice my other SM profiles still come up with duckduckgo as search 
engine.  Any ideas (besides deleting that as an available search 
engine in each profile)?


Running SM 2.46, W10, adblock plus, noscripts, and Norton Security Suite.



#1. It is the default search engine for SeaMonkey.

#2. Although I couldn't change it using "Manage Search Engines" under 
Edit > Preferences > Internet Search. I could change it using Customize, 
adding the Search Bar, changing it to another search engine (Google for 
this test), entered a search term in the address bar and it used Google.


#3. Clicking the Search button used Google.

#4. Moving the Search Bar back to Customize, search still uses Google.

#5. Reset it back to DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons.

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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread stan 

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Jim wrote:


I got up this morning and found that my search engine has been
switched to "duckduckgo".

...

Reading up on this subject, it appears I may have updated or
installed something, and didn't see a box checked to make duckduckgo
my default search engine (my bad). But there isn't a good
explanation how to get rid of it completely (says to uninstall the
app but doesn't give a good idea what that app is).


Not your fault, it's a known issue. Everyone who upgrades to SM 2.46
seems to have it.

Easiest solution is to delete DDG from the list at Edit | Preferences |
Browser | Internet Search | Manage Search Engines. Then you can choose
the desired search engine and SM will stop overruling you.

DuckDuckStop!!



Unfortunately it does not work!
I can select new search engine but DDG is still coming up.
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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread Jim 

Ant wrote:

On 12/29/2016 10:25 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

Ant wrote:

SM's View Menu -> Show/Hide -> Sidebar OR press F9 key. This was in my
updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 OS. Change it. See if it works now. It's a
known issue.


That seems a simpler process that what I suggested.  Good tip.


Yep, it was suggested in "SM2.46 default search engine problem"
newsgroup thread. :)
Thanks all -- I searched the newsgroup for "ducktogo" and not "search 
engine" before I posted.

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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread Ant 

On 12/29/2016 11:44 AM, Ralph Fox wrote:

On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 12:16:44 -0500, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Jim wrote:


I got up this morning and found that my search engine has been
switched to "duckduckgo".

...

Reading up on this subject, it appears I may have updated or
installed something, and didn't see a box checked to make duckduckgo
my default search engine (my bad). But there isn't a good
explanation how to get rid of it completely (says to uninstall the
app but doesn't give a good idea what that app is).


Not your fault, it's a known issue. Everyone who upgrades to SM 2.46
seems to have it.


Not here.  Here it still showed Google after upgrading to SM 2.46.


Lucky you. I wonder why some didn't get hit. Hmm!
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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread Ralph Fox 

On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 12:16:44 -0500, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Jim wrote:


I got up this morning and found that my search engine has been
switched to "duckduckgo".

...

Reading up on this subject, it appears I may have updated or
installed something, and didn't see a box checked to make duckduckgo
my default search engine (my bad). But there isn't a good
explanation how to get rid of it completely (says to uninstall the
app but doesn't give a good idea what that app is).


Not your fault, it's a known issue. Everyone who upgrades to SM 2.46
seems to have it.


Not here.  Here it still showed Google after upgrading to SM 2.46.


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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread Ant 

On 12/29/2016 10:25 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

Ant wrote:

SM's View Menu -> Show/Hide -> Sidebar OR press F9 key. This was in my
updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 OS. Change it. See if it works now. It's a
known issue.


That seems a simpler process that what I suggested.  Good tip.


Yep, it was suggested in "SM2.46 default search engine problem" 
newsgroup thread. :)

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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread Jonathan N. Little 
Ant wrote:
> SM's View Menu -> Show/Hide -> Sidebar OR press F9 key. This was in my
> updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 OS. Change it. See if it works now. It's a
> known issue.

That seems a simpler process that what I suggested.  Good tip.

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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread Ant 
SM's View Menu -> Show/Hide -> Sidebar OR press F9 key. This was in my 
updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 OS. Change it. See if it works now. It's a 
known issue.



On 12/29/2016 8:52 AM, Jim wrote:

I got up this morning and found that my search engine has been switched
to "duckduckgo".

No matter what I switched to for search in preferences, duckduckgo came
up as a search engine.

I went to the screen under search engine precedence, and moved
duckduckgo down to last.  It still came up as my search engine.

Finally, I deleted it from the list of available search engines under
preferences and that got rid of it (for that user profile in SM).

Reading up on this subject, it appears I may have updated or installed
something, and didn't see a box checked to make duckduckgo my default
search engine (my bad).  But there isn't a good explanation how to get
rid of it completely (says to uninstall the app but doesn't give a good
idea what that app is).

I notice my other SM profiles still come up with duckduckgo as search
engine.  Any ideas (besides deleting that as an available search engine
in each profile)?

Running SM 2.46, W10, adblock plus, noscripts, and Norton Security Suite.



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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread Jim 

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Jim wrote:


I got up this morning and found that my search engine has been
switched to "duckduckgo".

...

Reading up on this subject, it appears I may have updated or
installed something, and didn't see a box checked to make duckduckgo
my default search engine (my bad). But there isn't a good
explanation how to get rid of it completely (says to uninstall the
app but doesn't give a good idea what that app is).


Not your fault, it's a known issue. Everyone who upgrades to SM 2.46
seems to have it.

Easiest solution is to delete DDG from the list at Edit | Preferences |
Browser | Internet Search | Manage Search Engines. Then you can choose
the desired search engine and SM will stop overruling you.

DuckDuckStop!!

Thanks -- that's what I did, but I actually had to delete duckduckgo 
from the list of available search engines to stop it from being the default.

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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread Paul B. Gallagher 

Jim wrote:


I got up this morning and found that my search engine has been
switched to "duckduckgo".

...

Reading up on this subject, it appears I may have updated or
installed something, and didn't see a box checked to make duckduckgo
my default search engine (my bad). But there isn't a good
explanation how to get rid of it completely (says to uninstall the
app but doesn't give a good idea what that app is).


Not your fault, it's a known issue. Everyone who upgrades to SM 2.46 
seems to have it.


Easiest solution is to delete DDG from the list at Edit | Preferences | 
Browser | Internet Search | Manage Search Engines. Then you can choose 
the desired search engine and SM will stop overruling you.


DuckDuckStop!!

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Re: search engine hijacked

2016-12-29 Thread Jonathan N. Little 
Jim wrote:
> I got up this morning and found that my search engine has been switched
> to "duckduckgo".
> 
> No matter what I switched to for search in preferences, duckduckgo came
> up as a search engine.
> 
> I went to the screen under search engine precedence, and moved
> duckduckgo down to last.  It still came up as my search engine.
> 
> Finally, I deleted it from the list of available search engines under
> preferences and that got rid of it (for that user profile in SM).
> 
> Reading up on this subject, it appears I may have updated or installed
> something, and didn't see a box checked to make duckduckgo my default
> search engine (my bad).  But there isn't a good explanation how to get
> rid of it completely (says to uninstall the app but doesn't give a good
> idea what that app is).
> 
> I notice my other SM profiles still come up with duckduckgo as search
> engine.  Any ideas (besides deleting that as an available search engine
> in each profile)?
> 
> Running SM 2.46, W10, adblock plus, noscripts, and Norton Security Suite.

Restore temporarily the Search widget to the main toolbar:

1) Right-click on Main toolbar select Customize

2) Find the Search widget, the one that now has the DuckDuckGo icon with
the dropdown option, not the one with the magnifier, and drag to Main
toolbar

3) Click the dropdown on the newly restored Search widget and select
engine of choice.

4) You can now remove the Search widget with right-click on Main toolbar
select Customize and drag off the widget

Now you will have your default search engine in the Location widget and
in the right-click option menu...


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