Google Update and Pale Moon

nana2 · Unread post by **nana2** » 2011-09-30, 17:14

nana2 wrote:Now I've still got over 840 Google registry items and Google updates remnants in my PC. Since Fx and PM also use google for certain things it's impossible to find out which ones could be deleted safely.

Pale Moon will actually work just fine without any entries in the Windows Registry being present. Those entries are mainly used for letting third party programs know where to find the browser. You should be able to safely delete Google Update entries without an issue from your Windows registry as Pale Moon doesn't require any of them. If for some reason you still run into issues, running the Pale Moon installer should definitely fix it as that is what makes the Pale Moon specific location registry entries.

nana2 · Unread post by **nana2** » 2011-09-30, 18:59

Moonchild wrote:
nana2 wrote:Now I've still got over 840 Google registry items and Google updates remnants in my PC. Since Fx and PM also use google for certain things it's impossible to find out which ones could be deleted safely.
Pale Moon will actually work just fine without any entries in the Windows Registry being present. Those entries are mainly used for letting third party programs know where to find the browser. You should be able to safely delete Google Update entries without an issue from your Windows registry as Pale Moon doesn't require any of them. If for some reason you still run into issues, running the Pale Moon installer should definitely fix it as that is what makes the Pale Moon specific location registry entries.

I have both Firefox and Palemoon browsers. AFAIK Google updates In Options> Securities the *Block reported attack sites* and *Block reported web forgeries* if one has ticked those boxes in PM and Fx? I downloaded RegScanner from Nirsoft website, typed in Google and that's how I did find these 840 entries. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html You think it's OK then to remove all Google Updates? although I would love to delete all 840 Google entries.
TIA

Unread post by **Moonchild** » 2011-09-30, 21:19

Pale Moon (and Firefox) store settings for safebrowsing in the profile, not in the Windows registry. Google Update is indeed horrible.
Google entries in the Windows Registry won't impact the default settings for Google Safebrowsing in the browser.

nana2 · Unread post by **nana2** » 2011-10-01, 02:23

Thank you Moonchild for responding. I deleted all Google Updates and checked out the browsers. All seem to work fine so far AFAIK. Now only 748 items left under the search for Google in Nirsoft's regscanner, most of them from previous years. What I did find out that the urlclassifier3.sqlite files (safebrowsing?) are stored in the Local Settings in XP?