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To manually uninstall the SearchSidebar extension or any other extension, take a look at the install.log file in your Mozilla-Firefox directory to see what was installed then remove the parts that you can. In some cases you can't remove everything. SearchSidebar is currently one of those cases, as it overwrites the default google search-plugin. To remove everything else that was installed with the SearchSidebar extension you may follow the install.log and remove the appropriate parts. To remove the majority of all that was installed with the SearchSidebar follow these instructions:
Delete the all-searchsidebar.js file located in the /defaults/pref directory of your firefox installation.
Delete the searchsidebar directory which is located under your firefox chrome directory.
Remove the following line from your installed-chrome.txt file:
content,install,url,resource:/chrome/searchsidebar/content/
Remove the following lines from your chrome.rdf file:
<RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:package:searchsidebar"and
c:baseURL="resource:/chrome/searchsidebar/content/"
c:locType="install"
c:displayName="Advanced Search Sidebar Extension"
c:author="Matthew A. McGuigan"
c:name="searchsidebar"
c:extension="true"
c:description="Bringing Advanced Mozilla-Search to Firefox." />
<RDF:li resource="urn:mozilla:package:searchsidebar"/>Remove the following lines from your overlays.rdf file:
<RDF:li>chrome://searchsidebar/content/searchsidebar.xul</RDF:li>
To remove the search engines that were added, look in your Mozilla-Firefox directory for a directory called searchplugins and find the src files and the image files of the same name, then delete them. If you delete all of the search plugin files you will no longer have any search plugins available for anything that uses Mozilla-Search. This includes the small search box on the navigation toolbar.