Can't get rid of Yahoo from Firefox address bar search

Factual Questions
1

I type in something like “BBC” into the address bar, instead of hopping to www.bbc.co.uk, I get the Yahoo search results.

I had installed a bit of software that smuggled Yahoo in there somehow, but I thought I had removed it according to some Googled instructions. I put about:config into the address bar and changed the keyword search to Google’s “I feel lucky” address, but to no avail.

Anything else I should be doing?

2

sounds like the smuggled Yahoo software may have changed your default search engine. if you don’t have the search engine thing enabled on your toolbar, you can add it by right-clicking anywhere on the toolbar, choosing Customize and then dragging it somewhere. once it’s there, change it from Yahoo to Google (or whatever) by clicking the dropdown arrow next to the Yahoo icon.

if you change all that and it still defaults to Yahoo search results when you enter, for example, “bbc” in the address bar, try this approach:

3

That link is dead.

But this reminds me that Firefox on my office machine has a whole Yahoo line that I never installed right under the address line and I cannot figure out how to get rid of it. It does not endear me to Yahoo. Does anyone know how to remove this?

4

I got some Yahoo crap bar with AVG Free, but once I grew tired of it and unchecked the option in AVG I haven’t seen a trace of it.

5

View->Toolbars->Yahoo Toolbar Just uncheck it.

6

In the end I had to uninstall and reinstall Firefox. Strangely enough, Yahoo didn’t seem to be listed in the about:config page and I had uninstalled anything Yahoo related I could find through the Control Panel.

7

Windows 7:
–>Start
–>Type Regedit

In Regedit:
–>HKLM -->Software -->DeviceVM -->Browser Configuration Utility -->FF
Delete Yahoo folder
–>IE
Delete Yahoo folder

HK_Users:
–>HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1156402359-4183174444-3213922023-1001
–>Software -->DeviceVM -->Browser Configuration Utility -->FF
Right click on Default --> Modify --> Change to Google
–>IE
Right click on Default --> Modify --> Change to Google

and you should be free of annoying Yahoo in the address bar.

Later you can put it back in as search possibility in your browser. It won’t be coming up in the address bar.
c.

8

I had the same problem with this crap Yahoo search toolbar. I did what you suggested and when I restarted my computer got a dialogue box come up and say something like “It seems you’ve unselected the Yahoo search toolbar. We’ve re-activated it in case you deactivated it by mistake.”

:mad::mad::mad::mad:

9

This is obviously too late, and probably the first thing that you would have thought of, but the native firefox search bar has a symbol and arrow next to it that enables you to switch the search engine or site, you didn’t have that set to yahoo did you? :smiley: