How to remove bing from safari, Help!

Select Safari > Preferences > Extensions. Are any Safari extensions installed?

Launch the Terminal application by entering the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Drag or copy -- do not type -- the following line into the window:

defaults read -g NSPreferredWebServices

Press return. Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered -- the text, please, not a screenshot.

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It is hard to see what it is that you did to fix this problem. My brother is experiencing this too. Could you clarify how you fixed it?

Thanks

Hi there

I have tried everything and this Bing installation seems to have really slowed down my Mac.

In Safari Preferences

- My Default Search Engine is Google

- I have previously uninstalled installermac in Extensions and that hasnt worked

- I have reset Safari

- I have tried the suggestion above and when I type into Terminal the text outlined it does nto retrieve anything

Bing is driving me Bang!

Any help would be appreciated

1. Go to Safari and select "Preferences"
2. Under the General section go to "Home Page"
3. Change the home page from the Conduit search option to something else (e.g. www.google.com)
4. Keep the dialog box open and select the "Exensions" tab.
5. Find the Conduit Search tool, select "Uninstall" and click the "Uninstall" button.
6. Close and reopen the browser to see the changes take effect.

Note: At this stage Conduit Search is removed, however address bar searches may still be set to Bing. To change address bar searches to Google or Yahoo! select the magnifying glass on the left-side of the address bar and choose your preferred search provider from the drop-down menu.

copypasted from: http://forums.divx.com/divx/topics/bing_search_page_appears_when_opening_a_new_t ab_window_on_firefox_macos

Just to say that elquevulguis' solution above fixed it for me - phew!

Elquevulguis,

I have gone to preferences, set google as my home page, i have removed all conduit search options, closed safari and reopened it. The conduit search options appear removed however BING still is!

I have the magnifying glass on the left-side of the address bar set to google and Bing will still take over the search, Its really frustrating!!

I have reset safari and still BING takes over my searches.

Is there something else i can do to remove this from my computer?

Really appreciate your assistance.

I have the same problem Clark

Very annoying

I had the same propblem for a week. I changed the home page to google . reset safari. and bing came back.

Then I changed the home page to one of the other pages that was listed. i.e. yahoo. closed and reopened safari. searched and it worked. Then changed the home page to google and did the same again. Now all fixed

Went to prefs, then extensions. Omnibar was listed. Did a search (yes, bing did it!) and found that omnibar enables the address bar to be used for searches.

Back to the prefs; extensions>omnibus has a drop-down menu there. 2 choices: "genie" and default. It was set to genieo; switched it to default.

Now I'm back to google!!!

hi guys I've had this same problem and have tried all of the above and still have no lock getting rid any further ideas?