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how can I change my search engine provider

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how do I change my search engine provider It will not change to Bing.com

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== crawler.com took over my search engine

how do I change my search engine provider It will not change to Bing.com == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == crawler.com took over my search engine

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It defaults back to Yahoo every time I change it to Google.

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Do you mean the Google search bar or the location bar?

See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword%2eURL (pref: keyword~46~URL)

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Search_Bar

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With having this problem with trying change my search engine I got a new one. I got a shortcut on my desktop that don't do anything and I can not remove it. Hit delete and says can not find it. Hit properties and go to security and it says information unavailable or can't be displayed. And web document dose not show. Any help on this?

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It defaults back to Yahoo every time I change it to Google.