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Yahoo search engine has disappeared

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A couple of days ago after an upgrade to the latest Firefox (in Wndows 10) my default search engine changed to DuckDuckgo. Yahoo - which had been my previous default no longer appeared in list of options for search engines in Firefox options. Looking at other posts, I deleted search.json.mozlz4 and restarted Firefox. This time my default search is Google. Yahoo is still not an option. Can anyone help me to get it back please? ( I did notice some Yahoo extensions, but these don't seem to be straight search tools but have additional 'features' like putting up photos on every new tab)

A couple of days ago after an upgrade to the latest Firefox (in Wndows 10) my default search engine changed to DuckDuckgo. Yahoo - which had been my previous default no longer appeared in list of options for search engines in Firefox options. Looking at other posts, I deleted search.json.mozlz4 and restarted Firefox. This time my default search is Google. Yahoo is still not an option. Can anyone help me to get it back please? ( I did notice some Yahoo extensions, but these don't seem to be straight search tools but have additional 'features' like putting up photos on every new tab)

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Hello, Can you try to restore default search engines from the "Search" tab in the options. I think this article might be helpful. After you restore can you try to set Yahoo default search engine again.

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Hello, Can you try to restore default search engines from the "Search" tab in the options. I think this article might be helpful. After you restore can you try to set Yahoo default search engine again.

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Thank you for this - I'd already tried restoring defaults, but Yahoo no longer appeared on the list, BUT I did use the link you sent and used the instructions for adding extensions to installYahoo and make it my default search engine. Thanks again.