| Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | MurPhil | 3/27/11 6:58 PM | I use http://google.com as my default search engine from within IE9. A pop-up ad keeps appearing everytime I open IE9, that offers to install Google Chrome. I don't want Google Chrome - tried it once and found that http://google.com more than meets my simple needs |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | leftbreak | 4/17/11 9:59 AM | Irks me to know end...I'm a bigtime google fan, always have been...because way back in the day, they didn't use banner adds...to now see a banner add promoting google chrome, just because I"m trying out IE9 is extremely distressing to me...I've even |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | M.L.B. | 5/2/11 5:24 PM | This question is not about Google Chrome. I use IE9 and do not want to install Google Chrome, however, I do like Google as my default search engine but every time I open the Google page this pop-up ad appears wanting me to install Google Chrome. I ca |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | Tantrum | 6/10/11 5:02 AM | This works for me: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=nl The last two letters stand for your country. So just copy and paste this url to your browser and change the last two letters to what you need and hit enter. You'll be sent tot a page without the |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | wrope | 6/10/11 9:33 AM | Almost there.. if I change my home page to http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=com everything is okay, the add is no longer there.As I live in Canada I changed it to http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=ca the add is also no longer there BUT I get the French C |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | cornz38 | 8/7/11 8:41 AM | Change the last bit to: http://www.google.com/webhp?ca or, in my case http://www.google.com/webhp?uk If i used: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=uk then I would end up on a russian language page.. |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | The bard | 8/28/11 1:19 AM | I followed your suggestion and it certainly stopped it appearing but I now boot up to the American site. If I change it back to Google UK, the Chrome ad re-appears. |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | Tantrum | 8/28/11 8:35 AM | As I said the last two letters stand for your country. The only thing is: It is the international Windows language abbreviation for your country. So in your case "gb". "uk" stands for Ukraine. T. |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | _thIS | 9/9/11 9:46 PM | up until now, all my attempts to change the ie9 homepage to circumvent this annoyance have failed. these include: http://www.google.com/webhp? && http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=com && http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=[language code] (unless i |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | poncho58 | 9/13/11 7:59 AM | I give up on the google chrome popup.Goodbye google,switching to yahoo.. |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | snowonweb | 10/4/11 2:26 AM | It might be a problem with ie9. On my worksation when i closed the popup, it never reppeared, but now on this new laptop, it reappears everytime i open ie9. it is very annoying but not as annoying as preium toshiba laptop's shittty keyboard and spac |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | leftbreak | 10/18/11 11:50 AM | It is so rude. Reminds me of everything that's wrong with the internet. And how I too, blindly thought google was the 'good guy' because when everybody else was stuffing rude intrusive adds down our throats, google took the high road, took over as |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | MCBALLS | 10/30/11 9:20 PM | GET THAT POPUP OFF THE SCREEN, WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE WORLD DOMINATORS NOW! YOU WANT SOME STUFF TO WORK ON GIVE ME A CALL, OTHERWISE SCREW OFF AND WAIT FOR ME TO WILL YOUR STOCK DOWN TO NOTHING! |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | jyppiest | 11/10/11 1:07 AM | On my laptop with win7, the popup reappears everytime in ie9 and never reappears in Firefox. On my workstation with XP, the popup never reappers in ie8 nor in Firefox. So I think that you should search in ie9+win7 combinated settings. At the first |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | ZynWoof | 11/30/11 11:54 AM | Okay, my Google Chrome Pop-Up Ad was gone this morning (11/30/11) when I logged in at work. Did this happen for anyone else? I actually switched my home page after reading most of these posts and trying everything I could think of to remove this th |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | gcottomc | 12/17/11 2:43 AM | I've been through all the above without success! Extremely irritating. What's Google playing at? Do they want to lose customers? |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | mamafanfan | 1/18/12 8:24 AM | it seems to appears only in IE. it does not show up in opera, safari, chrome and firefox. Seems to be a IE specific problem?! |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | JunctionJames | 1/18/12 10:15 PM | I am do not like continually being asked to install google chrome when I am using IE or anything else. Google chrome is installed already and I just happen to not be using it at that time. I am so annoyed by it I am now going to only use IE and my ho |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | Peppino321 | 1/23/12 2:29 PM | I too am getting the annoying "a faster way to browse the web install google chrome" message every time I open IE8 for the first time daily. Now I have to again look around and find a fix for this nonsense. Before this, they added another annoyance, |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | kenwood | 1/26/12 6:31 PM | I am using Firefox 3.6.25 and after reading a positing on another site that indicated that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-it-permanently/ might work I tried it and it worked like a charm. I had to right click on each element ( |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | cassandra3 | 1/27/12 12:04 PM | I had no trouble with this until about a week ago. Using Firefox 9, but this didn't occur until long after I upgraded to 9. Amazing that Google won't even respond to a long-running thread like this. Google people probably too busy counting their s |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | larry1960 | 1/30/12 8:41 PM | This worked for me. I used ad block plus add on to add a hiding element. Right click on the add block icon> select element to hide>drag the box to the (try chrome add) |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | zirkondia | 1/31/12 3:08 AM | To get rid of the chrome staff you need to have installed following addons: - Adblock Plus 2.0.3 - Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon 0.3 - Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus 1.2.1 Now you can left click at the red ABP-icon and choose "Select element to |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | waynecz | 2/3/12 11:16 AM | This is also appearing in Firefox for me and I HAVE GOOGLE CHROME also installed. |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | waynecz | 2/3/12 11:31 AM | zirkondia - Thank you that worked for me. I had AdBlock Plus but not the other two add-ons. Once I added them and picked the select element to hide for each item in the pop up ad, the ad went away. Of course I accidentally made this whole forum pag |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | corieltauvus | 2/13/12 11:37 PM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | waynecz | 2/16/12 7:32 PM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | tom.watson77084 | 2/17/12 10:12 AM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | Syzygos | 2/17/12 3:54 PM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | Will.C.M | 2/17/12 7:40 PM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | wrope | 2/17/12 9:52 PM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | BillH651 | 2/18/12 4:50 PM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | sonny4030 | 2/18/12 6:30 PM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | D. Esktorp | 2/19/12 1:48 PM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | phatcat88 | 2/19/12 8:59 PM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | hl2.gordon94 | 2/21/12 3:55 AM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | Barbara Mac 2011 | 3/4/12 8:31 PM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | mathfigure | 3/5/12 6:40 AM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | lochnagar | 3/6/12 11:08 AM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | jmckim | 3/7/12 5:18 AM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | caver_tim | 3/7/12 5:45 AM | |
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| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | Brian Marshall McCreery | 11/9/12 7:14 AM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | caver_tim | 11/9/12 7:53 AM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | Brian Marshall McCreery | 11/9/12 8:27 AM | |
| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | caver_tim | 11/9/12 9:05 AM | |
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| Re: Permanently remove annoying pop-ad to install Google Chrome? I prefer google.com as default search engine. | Eliminate the garbage | 2/17/13 6:51 PM |