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highjacked by yahoo

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bill
bill
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google is set to be default, all add ons are disabled, searching from search bar is ok (google).

but if i click on FF icon to open browser its yahoo as default page

google is set to be default, all add ons are disabled, searching from search bar is ok (google). but if i click on FF icon to open browser its yahoo as default page

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Hi, Firefox is able to open multiple home pages with the URLs separated by a 'pipe' (|), so please see - How to set the home page, and in 'Home Page,' make sure that in addition to your home page URL there isn't anything Yahoo - if there is, just delete it.

Also have a look in the Add-ons Manager (Ctrl+Shift+A) > Plugins for anything Yahoo that you don't recognize and disable it.

Also try starting Firefox from Start Menu > All Programs/Apps - or do a search for Mozilla Firefox. If it's OK, right click on the Desktop icon > Delete. Now right click on Mozilla Firefox in All Programs > Send to > Desktop (create shortcut). You should now have a clean shortcut on your Desktop.

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Hi, Firefox is able to open multiple home pages with the URLs separated by a 'pipe' (|), so please see - How to set the home page, and in 'Home Page,' make sure that in addition to your home page URL there isn't anything Yahoo - if there is, just delete it.

Also have a look in the Add-ons Manager (Ctrl+Shift+A) > Plugins for anything Yahoo that you don't recognize and disable it.

Also try starting Firefox from Start Menu > All Programs/Apps - or do a search for Mozilla Firefox. If it's OK, right click on the Desktop icon > Delete. Now right click on Mozilla Firefox in All Programs > Send to > Desktop (create shortcut). You should now have a clean shortcut on your Desktop.

If your question is resolved by this or another answer, please take a minute to let us know. Thank you.

bill
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thanks to both people,very helpful

fixed now