Yahoo hijacked my address bar and new tabs how can i restore google
Whenever I open a new tab it defaults to yahoo search even when i uninstalled yahoo toolbar and set new tabs to my home page. Yahoo also shows in my address bar. What gives? I would prefer to have google for my search default new tab page
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Did anyone answer this? I have uninstalled Yahoo! I have done the "about:config" and reset everything I can find. and yet it persists.. why?
here's the FIRST HALF of the source... how do I obliterate it? <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Yahoo! Search - Web Search</title><meta name="description" content="The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. 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and here's the SECOND HALF
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