Hi,

Would you please first take a look at jscher2000's post in this thread :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1208772

And then you might fight this article interesting :

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/12/05/mozilla-files-cross-complaint-against-yahoo-holdings-and-oath/

Helpful in that it shows me how to get my search back instead of bad alternatives, but it doesn't answer my question why Firefox suddenly yanked by default search engine out from under me. The article is hard to read, very vague, and doesn't say anything specific about removing existing search engines, but I guess it's a kneejerk reaction by Mozilla to what seems to be their own decision to break off a partnership. It also has nothing to do with Quantum (I'm not using that junk) or net neutrality, because Yahoo's search results are great!

I guess it's time I look for a different browser.

Ferenn said

I guess it's time I look for a different browser.

Aww, you don't really mean that, do you  ? Why would you leave the best browser on the planet over this  ? You still got your preferred
search engine ....

Maybe you'll find this article more interesting :

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/mozilla-terminates-its-deal-with-yahoo-and-makes-google-the-default-in-firefox-again/

And there are some interesting facts here :

https://searchengineland.com/library/features/google-yahoo-search-deal

Just in case you might think that we, contributors, think lightly about this issue :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/712925?last=73632

Oh please! Don't make me laugh "The best browser on the planet?" Hahahahahaha as if. Keep telling yourself that. It used to be yes, but you've long since lost your way.

You want to know why? Because it's ONE thing to not use Yahoo as default search any longer by default, which is fine as Mozilla gets their things straight legally, but ANOTHER thing altogether to completely remove it from **existing** installations of users without so much as a warning or explanation beforehand. You should never just yank people's preferred search out from under them, with no obvious way to get it back, especially not on ESR (imagine the IT dept getting backlash from all users in an organization, or don't you care about that anymore?) pending some legal squabble.

This is just the straw though. I'm already on ESR because of my need for NPAPI plugins other than the exempted Flash (in fact, Flash has been the most problematic of any plugin I've ever used), I like my extensions that actually extend the browser, and the fact of general crash-prone junk that Firefox is now with "Quantum".

I'm just done with Firefox being a corporate one-way-fits-all browser instead of what brought me to it in the first place. Your obsessive way of "protecting your brand" may work, but in the end you won't have any users left to carry the brand for, at this rate.

Apparantly you haven't read the last thread I posted a link to ....

Nor does it seem to matter to you that I'm loyal to the browser /company
I do not work for.

Well, I tried ......

Fanboyism is no reason for me to stay loyal to Firefox beyond this point.

You tried. Kudos for trying. There's not nothing left for me in this corner, it seems.

have a great day.

i will close the thread - the first reply contains an answer on how to set yahoo as search engine for anyone still interested in that point.