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why does my firefox now go to yahoo to search, it never did before I reinstalled it and I don't want to use yahoo

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Every search I enter into firefox now takes me into yahoo. I don't want to use yahoo and would like just to use firefox.

Every search I enter into firefox now takes me into yahoo. I don't want to use yahoo and would like just to use firefox.

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From where did you download Firefox?
You may have a version of Firefox which is "optimized" for Yahoo.

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I downloaded firefox from the firefox/mozilla website, how do I get rid of the yahoo

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