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Cannot Delete Yahoo

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asoonernurse
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Cannot delete Yahoo from search engine (upper right window). I want just Amazon and Wikipedia, but Yahoo keeps returning like a bad penny.

I have gone into about:config and deleted all yahoo references but one - browser.search.deafultenginename will NOT allow me to modify name or delete it in any way.

What now Mozilla?

Cannot delete Yahoo from search engine (upper right window). I want just Amazon and Wikipedia, but Yahoo keeps returning like a bad penny. I have gone into about:config and deleted all yahoo references but one - browser.search.deafultenginename will NOT allow me to modify name or delete it in any way. What now Mozilla?

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cor-el
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

If you do not keep changes after a restart then see:

asoonernurse
asoonernurse Umnikazi wombuzo
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Well that worked nicely. Thank you. :-)

cor-el
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You're welcome