How to remove mystart.incredibar.com from firefox

Step 1

Open your Firefox browser and click the address bar and type in ‘about:config’ and press enter, you will then be greeted with this page.

Before you click ‘I’ll be careful, I promise!’ It’s important to understand that you can really mess up your browser by changing things without knowing the full extent what they do. Only change values and settings that are required and mentioned in this guide.

Step 2

OK Great, you clicked the ‘I’ll be careful, I promise!’ button, you will now notice a new screen with lots of settings and values, simply filter your results by clicking the filter field and entering ‘mystart’ you should then get results like so:

Step 3

Once you have filtered your results you can now proceed to removing MyStart Incredibar from your firefox, first start by double clicking ‘browser.search.defaultenginename’ and change this value to ‘Google’, this will make Google your default search engine with no branding, now It’s time to remove the mystart incredibar homepage. To do this simply double click ‘browser.startup.homepage’ and change to the page you wish to have popup every time you load your browser, in this example we use Google ‘http://www.google.co.uk’. Here is an image to show you what your filter and settings should look like once changed.

Now restart firefox and welcome back your old settings, enjoy.