Never requested Yahoo and lately has been taking over my Tabs.

For the past week or so Yahoo has been coming up on my screen for example replacing my AOL email session even though I never requested it and was trying to open an email from a friend and or eBay. I tried removing Yahoo from my computer and cannot find it as a standalone program and the only place it is visible is within the Firefox application. What can I do to prevent or remove this program / Application from doing this?

Hi,
This has just happened to me too, seems it has to do with the yahoo messenger, found the solution here: http://uk.search.yahoo.com/?type=769480&fr=spigot-yhp-ffmac
I'm on a Mac OS X version 10.7.5 and Firefox 18.0.2
I tried changing start page, deleting cookies as advised, deleting search engines, deleted two suspicious new add-ons:
Amazon shopping assistant by Spigot and Ebay shopping assistant by Spigot but every time would have the same problem after rebooting firefox. Finally, reseting the "keyword.URL" as advised did work:
Step 1: Open a new Firefox browser window.
Step 2: Type about:config in the search field and press Enter.
Step 3: Click the "I Will Be Careful" button if necessary.
Step 4: Scroll to find a configuration key titled: keyword.URL
Step 5: Select "keyword.URL" and right-click, then hit "Reset" from the drop-down menu.
This happened on my computer after installing the yahoo messenger app on my android tablet. I wonder if it was that.
Anyway, now everything works again. Hope you find this helpful.

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