Search engine changed

All of my search engines in the toolbar of Mozilla have changed to UK sites!! In "Manage Search Engines", I clicked the "Restore Defaults" button, but all I get is search engines for the UK.
I clicked the "Get more search engines"button, but nothing I want is listed. (Yahoo.au, etc)
How do I fix this???
Thanks a lot
Sonia

It sounds that you have switched to the en-GB Firefox version.
You will have to download the en-US Firefox version and install this version.
You can find the latest Firefox 21.0.x release in all languages and for all Operating Systems here:
*http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

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