Somehow Yahoo has "adopted" my firefox, and I can't get away from it. can you tell me how to remove it?

suddenly when I click on firefox, it comes up with Yahoo as an overlay. Says Yahoo on top right, and the first window is now yahoo instead of my own home page and I can't get away from it. how do I remove yahoo?

First thing to do is to install this extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/
It will "do its thing" automatically, then remove itself after a Firefox restart.
Then if that Yahoo homepage comes back after a Firefox restart or a Windows boot or restart, see us for further "fixes"; ''BTW, Firefox does come with a Yahoo search engine.''
It depends upon what Malware was installed and how deeply.

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