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Yahoo has become my default search engine. It used to be google; I want google back as my default search engine. Can you help?
Google used to be the default search engine in my FireFox setup. Now it's Yahoo. I would like to change it back to google. Can you tell me how to revert it back to google? If so, thanks.
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
== Two or three days ago.
Gekose oplossing
In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter . The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I'll be careful, I promise! , to continue to the about:config page. Search for the preference keyword.url. Right-click on it, and select Reset.
More info: Location bar search
Lees dié antwoord in konteks 👍 10All Replies (12)
We'll need some more info about your Firefox setup. Go to Help > Troubleshooting Information, then click Copy all to Clipboard. Open a reply to this post, and go to Edit > Paste to paste the info from your Troubleshooting Information page.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for trying to help me out with this. Below is the Troubleshooying info you requested:
Application Basics
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Gekose oplossing
In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter . The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I'll be careful, I promise! , to continue to the about:config page. Search for the preference keyword.url. Right-click on it, and select Reset.
More info: Location bar search
Der Chris,
Thanks a lot! I went into that last evening, searching for "Yahoo"anything. Didn't find anything I could see to "fix".
I'll try your suggestion this evening...
Thanks again, Lynn
I mean Dear Chris.
Your current setting for keyword.URL is
keyword.url : http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&p=
WooooHoooo! Thanks! It worked!
I am having the same problem when I type a search from the location bar.
I have gone to about.config and reset the search and rebooted. It still doesn't help.
Any suggstions.
What is your setting for the pref keyword.URL ?
See also:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search
You might want to be sure that these problems are actually taking you to Yahoo -- the problem was around last year (and has come back in a more problematic for this summer), and the search redirection was actually going to a site called wwww0.notfounditem.net (or maybe wwwwo...). It has ha Yahoo logo on it, but look at the actual address in the location bar.
This appears to be caused by some form of malware. This year's version is trickier because on my girlfriend's computer, even "about:config" redirects to the bogus search site, so you can't use the methods described above to fix the problem.
If anyone is having this issue, I had to change more than just the keyword.url. Here are the steps I took:
Open Firefox and type about:config
Then I changed:
browser.search.defaultenginename to google
browser.search.defaulturl to www.google.com
keyword.url right click {reset} or set = http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
Then I restarted Firefox.
Consider this another complaint against Yahoo's unclear messaging. I do use Yahoo for some things and I thought perhaps they were going to improve interoperability between services, I guess Microsoft is rubbing off on them.
Mozilla - If my elderly parents encountered this problem, they would not be able to solve it without assistance. Please consider adding this to tools -> options. I love them, but I don't need the exercise in patience
Gewysig op
Thanks to Chris and the solution chosen by Anonymoususer I have reset to Google in the prescribed manner. I should add that I'm convinced that the problem was a direct result of installing Panda - which was a pain to uninstall - and left a Panda redirect to Yahoo. Now if anyone can tell me why my Awesome bar does not show logos on known sites (daily national U.K. newspapers etc) I'd be v. grateful. Thanks. Penangry.