Firefox is my default browser but is extremely slow to connect to the net compared to IE

Nothing further to add to the above. I now connect to the web using IE and then open Firefox

Is it using yahoo as its search engine, or switching to yahoo's browser. If it is using yahoo as its search engine, you can change that in settings>options>search and at the top it will show you a button that you can click to choose your default search engine.
Have a great day!!
-Jon

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