Uninstall bing; use yahoo as web search engine

Bing has hijacked my opening firefox page. I would like to eliminate Bing as a search engine and use yahoo or google instead.

TOOLS then OPTIONS then GENERAL and in section HOME PAGE type http://www.google.com OR http://search.yahoo.com/ and then press the OK button to save it.
i hope i help
thank you

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