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The best way to fully delete, unsinstall, remove and disable Babylon search engine, toolbar and add-on is to remove and reset all settings in Mozilla Firefox's about:config

1. In url address of your FF browser type in:  about:config . This will display a list of Firefox settings and other configurations
2. In Filter, type in babylon. This will display only entries related or has references to babylon.
3. For browser.babylon.HPOnNewTabValue, right-click to modify and change the setting to http://www.google.com/
4. For the rest, right-click then Reset, this will change back your default search engine to, presumably, to Google.
5. Also in Firefox menu > Tools > Add-ons - uninstall all Babylon related addons, then restart your browser

Other necessary steps for Windows:

1. Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs - unsintall all programs related to Babylon search and toolbar
2. Registry Editor - In Programs > Run > regedit  - find (Ctrl F) babylon and delete entries and values
3. Delete C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\babylon.xml
4. Delete C:\Program Files\Babylon\ folder

Hope this helps! Let us know how it goes.

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+1 #19 Julie 2012-05-02 04:58

Thank you. I still had Babylon in my Program Data files according to Spybot so I cleared the file from there as well.

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+1 #18 Squiddiddler 2012-04-23 13:16

76yr old ready to pull my hair out oops, it's gone, so is Babylon..thanks a bunch.

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+1 #17 kary 2012-03-28 08:25

It works! Thanks. ^^

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+1 #16 Jay 2012-03-05 09:54

Great advice.
NB This Babylone stopped my windows update!!!!
Google babylone safe and its not.

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+1 #15 gopal 2012-03-01 02:56

Thanks a ton!

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+1 #14 PB 2012-02-27 23:31

finally...had to do it twice but it now gone. especially horrid program

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+2 #13 PB 2012-02-27 23:03

brilliant...thanks horrid babylon has gone from my computer. invading my computer without my permission!

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+1 #12 PB 2012-02-27 23:00

just brilliant. thanks very much. that unwanted horrid babylon is gone from my computer. their invasion of my computer is outrageous!

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+1 #11 J 2012-02-20 21:45

It's ok. I fixed the error message. I just disabled all add-ons and the error message stopped. Thanks for the help with Babylon. Awesome that it's gone!

Cheers!

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+1 #10 J 2012-02-20 21:27

That worked great except now every time I open a web page I keep getting this error message every time! Can u help me?

Thanks!

onPageLoad error: Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXP ECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getCharPref]

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+1 #9 ozlem 2012-01-20 16:07

can you help me for internet explorer please

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+1 #8 natalie 2012-01-15 19:43

so helpful!!!thank you

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+1 #7 henry krinkle 2011-12-30 14:36

Blooming Babylon!!!!

Thanks!!

Happy new Year!!

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+1 #6 Sam 2011-12-29 17:26

Thank you for your help and working solution! Happy new year!!!

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+2 #5 ross 2011-12-27 20:46

Thank you!!! finally it's gone. I've used all the solution in the web. but none of them worked. But once I use your solution, it worked!!! Thank you :)

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+1 #4 phoenix 2011-12-13 10:07

Thanks For your help...i really thank you!

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+1 #3 funkyy 2011-12-07 08:21

I tried all the "solutions" offered by other sites and none worked. Then I followed your instructions and..hey presto!! the damn Babylon search toolbar is finally gone. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Well done.

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+3 #2 AMBER 2011-11-07 12:12

THANK YOU :)

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+4 #1 barakeel 2011-09-10 21:39

Thanks a lot.

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