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My web search come back always on Yahoo

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hbelhassen
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My WEB Search tool come back always on Yahoo search.

If I remove Yahoo from websearch list, it come back on next firefox start. And set web search on Yahoo!!

How can help me?

My WEB Search tool come back always on Yahoo search. If I remove Yahoo from websearch list, it come back on next firefox start. And set web search on Yahoo!! How can help me?

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cor-el
cor-el
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If you have AVG software then see:
AVG Antivirus and Security Software - AVG Security Toolbar Help New Tab Search
http://www.avg.com/special-toolbar-how-to-disable-search-tlbrf.tpl-mcr1\

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks.

  • Java Plug-in 1.6.0_12 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

Update the Java plugin to the latest version.

hbelhassen
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My antivirus is ANTIVIR.

I don't find any prefs.js on the disk.

hbelhassen
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Excuse me; I find the file and I try to use about:config for changing keword.URL to http://www.google.fr/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

When I stop firefox and restart it

web search comming back to Yahoo.