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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. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web."><style>html{color:#000;background:#FFF}body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,form,fieldset,legend,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td{margin:0;padding:0}table{border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0}fieldset,img{border:0}address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal}li{list-style:none}caption,th{text-align:left}h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{font-size:100%;font-weight:normal}q:before,q:after{content:''}abbr,acronym{border:0;font-variant:normal}sup{vertical-align:text-top}sub{vertical-align:text-bottom}input,textarea,select{font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit}input,textarea,select{*font-size:100%}legend{color:#000}body{font:13px/1.231 arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;*font-size:small;*font:x-small}select,input,button,textarea{font:99% 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#dfdfdf}#yschbt{background-color:#fdce3e;background-repeat:repeat-x;background-image:url('data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAAZCAIAAAB/8tMoAAAAPUlEQVR42jWLQQqAQBDDOv3/9xSf4WlP7sQi4yGEFGr6tNZl0WFbCjxWh5i4mG127mN6/78P8q00HVeaGF4G+jQ9YP3upQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==');border:1px solid #e5a716;color:#434343;cursor:pointer;font-weight:bold;height:26px;margin-left:7px;padding:0 23px;*padding:0 11px;*filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#fffff4ae,endColorstr=#fffdce3e)}#yschsp,#yschbt{font-weight:bold}#ft{font-size:11px;color:#6f9cb9;margin-top:50px;text-align:center}#ft a{color:#6f9cb9}#ft ul{display:inline}#ft span{margin-right:10px}#ft li{display:inline;padding:0 6px;border-left:1px solid #aac5d4}#tabs li.last{position:relative}#more-link{position:relative;padding-right:16px;_zoom:1;text-decoration:none}#more-link span{background-position:-193px 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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>