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Yahoo hijacked my address bar and new tabs how can i restore google

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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

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?

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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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<a id="logo" href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Search</a>

<form id="sf" action="/search;_ylt=A0oGdVMFB.lO_AMA6mml87UF" accept-charset="utf-8">
<label for="yschsp" class="offscreen">Search query</label><input type="text" id="yschsp" class="sd" name="p" value="" autocomplete="off" autofocus><input type="submit" class="sbb-sd" id="yschbt" value="Search"><input type="hidden" name="fr" value="freeze" /><input type="hidden" name="fr2" value="sfp" /><input type="hidden" name="type" value="W3i_NA,132,3_6,Tab Search,20111145,6894,0,22,0" /><input type="hidden" name="iscqry" id="iscqry">

class="off-left"Search Assist

</form>
<a class="ypromo" href="/r/_ylt=A0oGdVMFB.lO_AMA62ml87UF/SIG=11ghh61hh/EXP=1323923333/**http%3a//www.yahoo.com/bin/set">Make Yahoo! your homepage</a>
<script>(function(){var d=document;if(!("autofocus" in d.createElement("input"))){try{d.getElementById("yschsp").focus();}catch(e){}}window.onload=function(){var h=d.getElementsByTagName("head")[0],o=d.createElement("script");o.src="http://a.l.yimg.com/pv/static/lib/syc_metro_201110110013.js";YUI_config={ura:{"searchbox":"#yschsp","logdata":{"origin":"syc","csrcpvid":"mFZKnkoGdTBJeOxyTrrregM_bFMCu07pBwUABuL7"},"spaceid":"95810469","api":"\/sdconfig?o=sd1\u0026sid=95810469","rev":"0.8.22","sbc":"#sbx","container":"#at","hclass":"sa-hidden","fclass":"shl-reg"}};h.appendChild(o);};}());</script></body></html>