I want to get rid of Yahoo which was part of a download.

I agreed to a Firefox download. What was downloaded was Yahoo pages and toolbar. I don't want them. How can I get rid of this.

This link shows how to remove the Yahoo toolbar - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_toolbars

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    * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
    * Uninstalling toolbars - MozillaZine Knowledge Base<br>http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_toolbars

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