Firefox Search Always Starts With Yahoo


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Usually whenever I started my Firefox, it started with Google as the default first search engine, now it always starts with Yahoo! as the default search engine... how can I change this bullcrap?

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You must have installed Yahoo IM or something related with that.

Take a few extra minutes to do a custom installation of Yahoo Messenger with Voice so that you can cherry-pick your preferences. Unfortunately, the default installation is aggressive in changing your Web browser's home page and search engine to Yahoo if you don't tell it not to.

It also adds gay **** like livewords etc... Better yet don't use something like that (if you did)...

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You know how to take it off?

Actually, I did install Yahoo, I use it to chat with my girlfriend while she's in vacation in Japan.

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Yes i'm having the same problem. My silly friend installed yahoo messenger and it comes with all that crap ( dunno why people say it's better then msn as it's not. yahoo is full of crap, spyware etc ) anyways how do i get rid of the yahoo toolbar in firefox :angry:

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Yes i'm having the same problem. My silly friend installed yahoo messenger and it comes with all that crap ( dunno why people say it's better then msn as it's not. yahoo is full of crap, spyware etc ) anyways how do i get rid of the yahoo toolbar in firefox :angry:

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Boot Firefox in safe mode? Maybe that will help you delete the extension, if you can.

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Boot Firefox in safe mode? Maybe that will help you delete the extension, if you can.

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How to i boot firefox in safe mode :blush:

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can't you simply uninstal the yahoo taskbar from add/remove programs? you know when u install software always do the custom install to make sure the software doesnt install additional crap like toolbars and default homepages etc.

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I deleted everything from Yahoo in add/remove but you know yahoo it always adds some thing new to your pc.

I put it in safe mode and yes it's not there but can't use themes? i need to know how to delete yahoo from my firefox.

What if i uninstalled firefox and then reinstalled it onto another harddrive, would that take yahoo off?

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Try clearing your profile folder. Backup important settings, like your bookmarks, first though.

To get to your profile folder put "%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" into the run box.

"search.rdf" might be the file that holds this setting, but I'm not sure.

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Try clearing your profile folder. Backup important settings, like your bookmarks, first though.

To get to your profile folder put "%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" into the run box.

"search.rdf" might be the file that holds this setting, but I'm not sure.

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I put in %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and comes up with this site. Can't find any search box tho.

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I deleted everything from Yahoo in add/remove but you know yahoo it always adds some thing new to your pc.

I put it in safe mode and yes it's not there but can't use themes? i need to know how to delete yahoo from my firefox.

What if i uninstalled firefox and then reinstalled it onto another harddrive, would that take yahoo off?

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The yahoo toolbar isn't listed under Tools > Extensions? If its not you would have to manually delete it from either the profile folder or the main firefox folder under the subfolder "extensions".

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No, run box in windows. Not the address box. Start > Run.

Also, you want to look for a specific extension. Or just clear them all if you don't feel like finding it.

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See, I don't have that problem, it's just that the usual search engine selected first is google, but now it's Yahoo, and I hate yahoo search, and am too lazy to click on google instead, I want to remove yahoo PERIOD.

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