Music Search for Chrome™ - How to remove

Music Search for Chrome™ is a browser add-on that is potentially unwanted. It hijacks the browser’s default search engine setting so that it can redirect your searches to Yahoo. It also includes search suggestions for music sites but I don’t think that’s very useful. Overall, Music Search for Chrome™ behaves a bit like a browser hijacker and I think it should not be used by anyone.

About Music Search for Chrome™:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, potentially unwanted program.
Removing Music Search for Chrome™	Uninstall Music Search for Chrome™ and other potentially unwanted items, if needed, clean your computer with an anti-malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC).
Problems and issues	It takes control over what search engine your browser can use, it isn’t very helpful or convenient to use.
How Music Search for Chrome™ spreads	Installed from its home page, installed from the Chrome Web Store, potentially isntalled unintentionally by some users.

How to remove Music Search for Chrome™

You can remove Music Search for Chrome™ by uninstalling it from your browser. It’s just a browser add-on, so removing it is really easy. You can do it in browser settings or even just in the upper right corner of your browser, in the extension menu.

If you don’t see Music Search for Chrome™’s icon in the upper right corner of your browser, then click the puzzle piece button – then you should see it.

Now, press the three-dot button.

In the drop-down menu, choose the Remove option to remove Music Search for Chrome™.

As Music Search for Chrome™ offers notifications, you should also check relevant settings and block the notifications of all the sites that you don’t want to be able to show messages on your screen.

If you suspect more serious malware being on your computer, if problems with excessive ads, search redirection, and other unusual browser behaviors continue, then you might benefit from using an anti-malware app, like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others.

Problems with Music Search for Chrome™

Privacy and search engine hijacking

Music Search for Chrome™ is not really dangerous. It’s bad for your privacy, but only because it’s a random company looking at your search terms and your browsing history. Music Search for Chrome™ shares the data it collects with Yahoo for monetization purposes – it causes Yahoo search to deliver your search results and it makes a bit of money from that.

While Music Search for Chrome™ is not dangerous, it’s not good, either. While it’s installed, it stops you from changing your default search engine. That setting belongs to Music Search for Chrome™ for as long as this add-on is installed.

In other words, Music Search for Chrome™ takes a feature (being able to choose a preferred default search engine ) and removes it from your browser. Just so it can make money.

Lacking features

If it’s making money, then is Music Search for Chrome™ any good? I don’t think so. It autocompletes queries that it thinks have to do with music, then offers a link straight to a music site.

But it’s not super convenient to click that suggestion as opposed to just pressing enter. And search engines often do a great job at finding the correct thing, unlike Music Search for Chrome™, which often guesses incorrectly what I’m searching for.

It seems to me that it’s more convenient to save your preferred music database in your bookmarks or favorites and use it when needed than it is to have Music Search for Chrome™ messing with search suggestions.

Unsurprisingly, a couple of extremely similar and potentially related browser add-ons, Sports Search for Chrome™ and Movies Search for Chrome™, have the same problems.

How hijackers spread

But despite how lacking I think Music Search for Chrome™ is, it has over half a million users or the Chrome Web Store. How did that happen?

There’s only one review and a handful of positive ratings, so people aren’t interacting with the Music Search for Chrome™ add-on as they should be. Are they all collectively ignoring Music Search for Chrome™? Did they install and forget?

There are a few possible explanations. The add-on may have been installed by another program as an optional offer (Download Wrappers and Unwanted Software are pure evil). The users might have not noticed. To them, it would just look like Yahoo has replaced whatever search engine they’d been using (which, if it’s not their first hijacker, was probably also Yahoo, so they might not even notice a difference).

Fake download buttons, pop-up ads, and misleading ads can have the same effect of confusing people and leading them to install extensions without meaning to.

Still, Music Search for Chrome™ is not dangerous or malicious. It’s just a mostly-useless browser add-on that I believe people would be better off without.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Music Search for Chrome™ from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Music Search for Chrome™, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Music Search for Chrome™ from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Music Search for Chrome™, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.