On my windows 7 laptop, after trying two suggestions, I cannot GET RID of yahoo as the Firefox search engine!!! Help Please!!
For two weeks I have been fighting to remove yahoo as the search engine with Mozilla Firefox. I am running the newest version of Firefox. I followed information I found online and fixed my desktop. The same information will not work on my laptop. The path was (about:config) (type keyword.URL in the filter box) ( on the string that appears, right click on keyword.URL) (select modify) ( type in the url of your choosing, choices are given) and that is supposed to fix it. It did on my desk top not my laptop.
After months, I think I figured it out...
I was frustrated because I like to use the url bar as my search engine, which is not fixed using the link posted by jadeye.
Try this...
* In your address bar, type in: “about:config”
* Inside of the filter search box, type in: browser.search.defaulturl
* ctrl click and choose “Modify”
* Type in: http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
* Do the same process with: keyword.URL and use:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
I think those steps finally fixed it for me. F-ing Blingee / SearchCanvas. What a racket.
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I cannot get rid of yahoo for search no matter what I;ve tried
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I change
about:config
url to
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when i check again - the damn yahoo is back
i try to change
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the system won't let me.change or remove
Do i have to do a TOTAL deinstall and reinstall of FF?
I like FF but if this continues I will have to change to another browser - I've done software since 1978.I had to --->
Help > Troubleshoot
about:support
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If you're having major problems which you can't resolve, start fresh with only your essential information.
then I got my themes addons etc
everything seems to work - but what a pain - I hate yahoo and its spawn babylon - all that add it without permission should be sued for the time effort and aggravation
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The Combo updater of Leopard 10.5.8 can be found here:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_8_Combo_Update
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More information on using Software Updater here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24901?viewlocale=en_US
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/Library/InputManagers
~/Library/InputManagers
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