Quick Recipes Search - How to remove

Quick Recipes Search (also Quickrecipessearch-serp.com and Quickrecipessearch.com) is a browser extension that provides a link to a recipe site and changes your search engine to Yahoo.com. It’s made by Tightrope Interactive – a company that does not have a great reputation, for it used to be known for spreading malware. Quick Recipes Search is much improved compared to this company’s older extensions. While is certainly not dangerous, it still looks and acts like a browser hijacker and fails to offer much to the user.

About Quick Recipes Search:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, PUP (potentially unwanted program).
Problems with Quick Recipes Search	Takes over the search engine and limits your choices, requires new browser tabs to be opened to reach recipes.
How it gets installed	Advertised online, bundled with other free programs.
Remove Quick Recipes Search	Uninstall all unwanted extensions, find and remove malware with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC,

What is Quick Recipes Search

Not very useful

Quick Recipes Search is a browser extension. In theory, browser extensions change how browsers work by adding new functions or changing browser features. Ad-blockers, TTS extensions, password managers, and other apps add meaningful functionality and can all be installed as browser extensions. Quick Recipes Search is a bit less valuable.

When Quick Recipes Search is installed, it takes the search engine (search from the address bar) and adds an extension pop-up. These both let you search for recipes (searching from the address bar, you need to start your query with “recipe”). Searching for a recipe opens a new browser tab on S.quickrecipessearch-serp.com. S.quickrecipessearch-serp.com features a bunch of links to Allrecipes.com, Copykat.com, Food.com, Myfoodandfamily.com, and other sites.

Quick Recipes Search may be promoted as helping users print recipes, however, it’s basically just a recipe aggregator. The sites it links to do all the work. You can easily add Allrecipes.com and the other recipe sites to your bookmarks and be able to visit them quickly and easily without Quick Recipes Search interfering and unnecessarily injecting itself.

Unwanted changes

The changes that Quick Recipes Search makes when installed aren’t all harmless – there are some issues and problems that might come up.

For example, Quick Recipes Search restricts your search settings. You can see it in its permissions when you install it:

• Read and change your data on Search.yahoo.com.
• Read your browsing history (free extensions do that to make money, usually).
• Change your search settings (this allows it to redirect your searches).

Quick Recipes Search sets Yahoo as the new default search engine and allows you to switch between Yahoo, Bing, and Google. Anyone who uses something other than these three search engines (like Duckduckgo) is left without an option. There is really no good reason for Quick Recipes Search to take over the search engine when it already has the extension pop-up (the pop-up that appears when you click n Quick Recipes Search’s icon in the browser).

Another issue is that all the redirects. Quick Recipes Search sends users off to Quickrecipessearch-serp.com which opens Allrecipes.com and all these redirects are not good for people’s private data. Generally, the more websites can see your data, the worse it is for your privacy.

Installation

The way that Quick Recipes Search is installed seems to be another issue. Based on Quick Recipes Search’s total lack of reviews and ratings despite having thousands of users on the Chrome Web Store, people who install Quick Recipes Search might have been tricked into installing it. This is just something that appears constantly with browser hijackers.

Based on people’s complaints about Quick Recipes Search in the Support section, it appears that Quick Recipes Search is advertised as a recipe printing app. People browse the internet and find some recipes. These sites also happen to advertise Quick Recipes Search. If it advertises with ads that look like buttons that say things like “Get Recipe” or “Print Recipe”, it’s only natural that people mistake these ads for buttons and think they’re getting the recipe they were just reading about. So, people click on it, but instead of getting the recipe they wanted, they’re offered to install the Quick Recipes Search extension.

If you come across a site that requires you to install a browser extension, be very careful and examine if the site justifies this. If not, just leave.

How to remove Quick Recipes Search

If you decide to remove Quick Recipes Search, you can manually uninstall it, or you can use an anti-malware application, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and other applications that can detect potentially unwanted programs.

We’ve seen other browser extensions by Tightrope Interactive, like Search Recipes and Easy Recipes Search, whose users also visited various other browser extension sites. So, it’s advisable to review all the browser extensions that you have installed besides Quick Recipes Search.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopRemoving Quick Recipes Search from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Quick Recipes Search. Click on the trash bin icon next to Quick Recipes Search or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Quick Recipes Search, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

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

TopRemoving Quick Recipes Search from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Quick Recipes Search related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Quick Recipes Search, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

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