If Firefox home page is a secure page why does it always get hijacked by yahoo.co.uk?????

Need to know where and how to find the icon (or any other method) which allows me to delete the yahoo.co.uk hijack. I don't even live in the UK!

If you are shown the Firefox main page but the search bar is set to Yahoo, try changing your Search settings:
* On the Search Bar (bar to the right of the address bar), click the icon or downward triangle
* Select the search provider you want as the main search engine
You can delete search providers you do not want by repeating the steps above but selecting "Manage Search Engines" and performing the necessary actions there. Please see [[Search bar - add, change and manage search engines on Firefox]] for more information.
If when you start Firefox you are sent to a different home page, first check your home page settings to make sure nothing was appended (if there is a | followed by another link, that tells Firefox to open another tab with that link):
* Tools (or [[Image: New Fx Menu]]) > Options > General
Also check your add-ons for any suspicious extensions:
* Tools (or [[Image: New Fx Menu]]) > Add-ons > Extensions
Check your list of install programs in Windows - Control Panel > Programs and Features. If you installed a yahoo toolbar, try uninstalling it to see if that fixes the problem.
You can also check to see if your shortcut has been tampered with. Right click on your Firefox shortcut and select Properties. Check the target line under the Shortcut tab for any web pages after the "firefox.exe".
You can also use the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/ Search Reset Tool]. This will reset your search and home page preferences to the default value then uninstall itself. Note that if your preferences are not saved and revert back when you restart Firefox, you may have third party software, such as an antivirus, preventing your preferences from being changed. Please see the article [[How to fix preferences that won't save]] for more information.

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https://www.yahoo.com/
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Thanks for your help , you made me realized that , I did change the permission for /home/icefox directory.
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MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{AABF71D7-40FB-4169-9334-504EB597FEF7}] DATAGRAM 1 : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
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