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How to change search engine to Google instead of Yahoo at initial Mozilla home screen?

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AnnaLemma replied
silverslick32
silverslick32

Mozilla home page ---> search bar ---> goes to Yahoo search engine.

I have searched & looked up other user's problems with this:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/933375?esab=a&as=aaq

I have tried all of the steps (about: conifg, renaming/deleting spigot file, reset)

And nothing works.

I'm running Win xp. Please help me.

Mozilla home page ---> search bar ---> goes to Yahoo search engine. I have searched & looked up other user's problems with this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/933375?esab=a&as=aaq I have tried all of the steps (about: conifg, renaming/deleting spigot file, reset) And nothing works. I'm running Win xp. Please help me.

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silverslick32
silverslick32 Question owner

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FIXED IT!

None of the suggestions helped.

Here's what I did: (backed up bookmarks) Uninstalled Mozilla completely - ALL components ---> iexplorer ---> Tools ---> Manage Add-ons ---> Google - default ---> Removed Yahoo. ---> Installed Mozilla 14.0.01 ---> Restarted = NO MORE YAHOO SEARCH!

AnnaLemma
AnnaLemma

Tylerdowner, you're my new hero. Perfect fix.