New Windows 8.1laptop will only install MSN/Bing - not firefox

I have installed a yahoo home page on my new win 8.1 laptop, using I.E. I also like to have FF for web browsing. However, when I download FF, it comes as MSN and Bing - which I definitely do not require. Is there a way around this please?

Hi, please see [[How to set the home page]].
Incidentally: You should only download Firefox from [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ Mozilla.org]
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