Why on earth am I getting Yahoo coming up on search results - I don't want it!!! Change this madness

I have found a way using about:config to remove and put back to Google, however nothing has changed. From researching it seems that this is something that we have had no choice about, you have made yahoo an embedded article within Firefox - this is outrageous and totally unwanted by myself and many others - you should be ashamed - Yahoo even tells me that it has not authorised Hotmail or Google when I try and login into my hotmail and I have to get around that after being warned it might be harmful - I am livid with you guys, I have used Firefox for years and am astounded at this cheek! Change it back so we have a choice, meantime I am deinstalling Firefox, a trusted browser for years :(

Thanks for the response. I am 100% I only downloaded Firefox via Mozilla and I make sure every time that I check off any boxes that offer to give me Ask, Bing, Yahoo or any of those.
This link gives the exact issue and how to resolve, however, it has not solved it for me and Firefox still reverts to Yahoo search results.
This is not good!
http://tech.gaeatimes.com/index.php/archive/how-to-change-your-firefox-location-bar-search-engine/

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