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I recently downloaded Ubuntu and deleted the old OS, windows vista, however, a browser extension called Frontier search has hijacked Firefox and I can't seem to remove it. Please help, all guides to removing it are for windows. It appears to be replacing the default search on both Firefox and chromium with frontier search, putting ads all over and stating that windows defender (without windows being installed) is trying to defend my PC from simple things such as YouTube.

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If that search engine is still around you didn't delete the old OS good enough. There's no way anything will survive a good format of the hard drive and Ubuntu offers to format the drive during install. Moreover I could only find references to Frontier search in relation to Chromium. – wie5Ooma Apr 14 '15 at 20:52
    
Do you use Firefox's Sync feature? Also, try creating a new firefox profile by running firefox --ProfileManager. – s3lph Apr 14 '15 at 23:00
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wow never seen that happen in linux ,,,,,

easy way ,,,,,,export your bookmarks ,,,,,,remove firefox and chromium sudo apt-get remove --purge firefox chromium ,,,make sure the .mozilla folder got removed (I dont know where chromium keeps it's extensions) ls -la ~/ if you see a mozilla folder delete/remove it then reinstall firefox and chromium

their may be easyer ways like just deleting the .mozilla in your home DIR.

but this should work

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Is this in the command prompt that I do this? – Ethan McLeod Apr 14 '15 at 21:24

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