Yahoo can go to hell

[TubsAlwaysWins]

In my Firefox yahoo keeps deciding to be my search engine. I have set it to google and it keeps coming back. It is really annoying me. How do i fix this?

[vanished]

Sounds like some other program is setting it like that.  Did you install anything by accident, like a search toolbar?

[TubsAlwaysWins]

12 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Sounds like some other program is setting it like that.  Did you install anything by accident, like a search toolbar?

None that I know of. I am pretty careful with what I download, and I uninstalled the most recent things I downloaded

[RZeroX]

about:preferences#search

Set Google as your default or you could remove Yahoo.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

9 hours ago, RZeroX said:

about:preferences#search

Set Google as your default or you could remove Yahoo.

I did that. Thats the issue

[NeoFrux]

3 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

I did that. Thats the issue

Do you happen to have Yahoo Toolbar or Yahoo Messenger installed? Yahoo offers what they call Yahoo Search Protection for those products, which "alerts you if an attempt is made to change your default browser search engine from Yahoo". If you clicked through enabling that by accident, that might explain what's going on here.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Just now, Runefox said:

Do you happen to have Yahoo Toolbar or Yahoo Messenger installed? Yahoo offers what they call Yahoo Search Protection for those products, which "alerts you if an attempt is made to change your default browser search engine from Yahoo". If you clicked through enabling that by accident, that might explain what's going on here.

I never remember installing/allowing either of those to do anything. How do I turn it off, just in case?

[NeoFrux]

Just now, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

I never remember installing/allowing either of those to do anything. How do I turn it off, just in case?

If you have either of them installed, try uninstalling them to see if that's the cause. You should also be able to disable it in the options for those programs, but I'm not seeing any specific info on it other than legalese "Yahoo provides this optional service" pages.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Just now, Runefox said:

If you have either of them installed, try uninstalling them to see if that's the cause. You should also be able to disable it in the options for those programs, but I'm not seeing any specific info on it other than legalese "Yahoo provides this optional service" pages.

Ok. Its wierd though becuase its only on my laptop, not my desktop.

[NeoFrux]

Just now, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

Ok. Its wierd though becuase its only on my laptop, not my desktop.

Do you have Firefox Sync enabled between your laptop and desktop? That might be why your desktop is echoing the setting on your laptop.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

2 minutes ago, Runefox said:

Do you have Firefox Sync enabled between your laptop and desktop? That might be why your desktop is echoing the setting on your laptop.

No idea.

[iasianxmofoii]

im sure you have tried this but

Three lines on the top right of firefox> options> search> make google primary> uncheck yahoo

close browser. then try again. if that fails you have malware installed in your reg and i recommend running a scan or restoring to a previous point

[TubsAlwaysWins]

11 hours ago, iasianxmofoii said:

im sure you have tried this but

Three lines on the top right of firefox> options> search> make google primary> uncheck yahoo

close browser. then try again. if that fails you have malware installed in your reg and i recommend running a scan or restoring to a previous point

Ok  tried but i will try again