Can't get rid of google search


mwal

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Google is not my default search engine, but searching from the address bar always goes to google -- worse, it goes to google.nl, because my IP is Dutch, so it spits out everything in that horrible language.

How do I make google go away?

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Oliver One replied at 2015-1-18 06:26 back.gif

First, you don't have a standard User Agent, and have you performed a clean install?

I haven't touched the user agent; it is set as the built-in one named "Maxthon" in the selection box. If their own UA isn't good enough...

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Oliver One replied at 2015-1-18 06:42 back.gif

Sometimes if you have upgraded a lot of times Maxthon, it can have a strange behavior with the UA se ...

That's all very nice, but can we stick to the problem at hand, rather than discuss something that is not in any way a problem?

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Oliver One replied at 2015-1-18 07:11 back.gif

Have you performed a clean install?

I have installed the latest version.

A few points:

1. There is still residual cr@p left over from maxthon 2 and maxthon 3 in this system, which the maxthon uninstallers/reinstallers/updaters did not remove.

2. The only difference "a clean install" makes is that it removes your user details, but not all the other cr@p that causes problems -- i.e. it can cause new problems, but is unlikely to solve any.

3. The UA string itself cannot redirect you to a different web-site, and I doubt very much that Yahoo would redirect me to google just because my UA string does not meet your rigid specifications.

Now, does anyone know where the "not default" search engine used by the address field is managed, so that I can change it?

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Oliver One replied at 2015-1-18 07:26 back.gif

There is no more deaf than the one who does not want to hear!

Indeed.

Now can you please tell me where to configure the setting?

It must be either set within a DLL or the main executable, because manual changes to the human-readable configuration files are overwritten when the browser is restarted.

Kindly note that, given its behaviour, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE FIXED BY A CLEAN REISTALL.

It is set as google because of something within the program, not because of anything that I have changed.

A clean reinstall will not change anything in this matter than an upgrade installation will not cover.

For the voluntarily hard of hearing:

Can you please tell me where to configure the setting?

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14853013 replied at 2015-1-19 01:24 back.gif

I have installed the latest version.

A few points:

1. There is still residual cr@p left over from maxthon 2 and maxthon 3 in this system, which the maxthon uninstallers/reinstallers/updaters did not remove.The Maxthon 2 data doesn't affect Maxthon 3 or 4. The userdata folder for Maxthon4 is the same as that of Maxthon3 once installed.

2. The only difference "a clean install" makes is that it removes your user details, but not all the other cr@p that causes problems -- i.e. it can cause new problems, but is unlikely to solve any.No, a proper clean install will remove all your userdata along with guest settings. You will be starting from scratch, although with the way the Passport account sync works, there is data that will get restored from the cloud.

It must be either set within a DLL or the main executable, because manual changes to the human-readable configuration files are overwritten when the browser is restarted.There are no hardcoded default search settings.

The default search for the address bar is set by the same one as for the search bar - Settings > Default search engine > Select your desired provider.

If that is set to the correct one and this occurs then it's quite likely a setting could corrupted some how, which is why it keeps reverting to the old one.

To test this try step #8 in the Maxthon Troubleshooting & Tips and Tricks thread. If it still happens, then test by doing #9.

Please post your findings from the above and we'll move on from there. Basically if testing using either of those scenarios works, then it should be just a matter of deleting the offending file and the settings should stick once again.

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The Maxthon 2 data doesn't affect Maxthon 3 or 4.

I noticed, which is why I haven't cleaned it up (cleaning it has its own risks, obviously, e.g. %appdata%\Maxthon3 files are modified during updates).

a proper clean install will remove all your userdata along with guest settings

... And replace them with defaults, which all have google as the default -- which will be overwritten by my cloud-stored settings.

there is data that will get restored from the cloud

QED.

The default search for the address bar is set by the same one as for the search bar - Settings > Default search engine > Select your desired provider.

If that is set to the correct one and this occurs then it's quite likely a setting could corrupted some how, which is why it keeps reverting to the old one.

I would have thought it an inherited value, so that smacks of an error in a DLL or executable.

Of itself, it wouldn't be too annoying, but right-clicking the new-tab button also invokes the address-bar search function, so it has the same output.

To test this try step #8 in the Maxthon Troubleshooting & Tips and Tricks thread

That "fixes" it for the default user. Logging in resumes the problem.

Interestingly, the default-user ini file is modified during this process, but its CurrentSearchEngine value does not change (and if I change it manually, it changes back to google when the browser starts).

Using the portable version makes no difference.

So what it looks like is that I have to delete (at least parts of) my profile -- something that a clean install wouldn't help with.

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The config.dat file in UserData\Users\\Config is what stores the data for search from what i can tell.

Assuming the ini file that you mentioned above is the same file, then as you found you will also lose a lot of other config settings. And as I said, and seems you found out, it seems that syncing will restore it from the cloud anyway.

That "fixes" it for the default user. Logging in resumes the problem.This is what makes me think it's something to do with your config file.

I'm not sure if there is a way to manually sync local data? Might have to look into that.

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