It was unintentional of me. I installed the DivX update, and the “Install blah blah” checkbox (I just looked quickly) was checked by default - on Mac OS, some windows and the application can steal my focus from me, so if I press ENTER, I enter, say , TextWrangler, but the installer window only steals my focus before I press ENTER and the "Install Conduit Search" is already checked, well, this add-on will be installed before I can stop it! I hate this behavior on Mac OS passionately.
Now I am trying to remove it. Mostly because I hate the fact that Bing is everywhere. I hate bing too.
Anyway, I followed instructions here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/713710 and here: http://community.conduit.com/Community/Forum/Community-Toolbar.aspx? threadid = 35114 , but about: config contains nothing but "add-ons", extensions or plug-ins ... and does not execute / Library / InputManager /
Currently, I have removed all the Bing and Conduit traces found in the Search Engine Management section and anything: config, but page 404 is still redirected to "Oops! Page not found. Try to give it another chance below." and the bottom of the page says, “Why did I get this page?” When I click on “Why did I get this page?”, It tells me because I installed the “Community Toolbar”, which I assumed I did, but I see no signs of what was happening. The plugin and extension settings for my Firefox do not contain anything that I am not familiar with, and, of course, do not contain anything about Conduit or Community, or even the toolbar. If I go to View> Toolbars, only Navigation and Bookmarks are listed there. There is an “add-on panel”, but when I turn on / off, it appears only for my 1Password application.
I'm at a dead end. I like to keep my browsers harsh and average, and not install any of this shit. I'm not sure why I decided to install DivX in the first place, but this is another lesson the other day.
The goal is to get rid of this Conduit / Bing shit. Conduit customer service does not quite exist, as expected.
The only sign that it exists is when I go to the URL and get page 404, it leads me to search.conduit.com, not just page 404. In about: config there is a key called “alternate_error_page”, but its value is "blocked", which means "about: blocked", as you can see why the page was blocked.
I don’t know where else to turn. Please help!