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I want yahoo to be my primary search engine. I not opens to a google search

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when i open my Mozilla foxfire page and type in the search bar my search does not open with yahoo. It is opening in a google search. I would like it to be a yahoo search page instead of google.

when i open my Mozilla foxfire page and type in the search bar my search does not open with yahoo. It is opening in a google search. I would like it to be a yahoo search page instead of google.

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At the top of your screen should be two bars on the left your location bar on the right your search engine bar. Next to the little blue G in the search engine bar is a small arrow left click on the arrow select yahoo from the list left click on it.

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I am not talking about the extra search window that has a list of search providers I am talking about my main address bar. When I search it is a Google search. I want it to be a Yahoo search... I think I found an add on to accomplish this. Default Search Engine 3.3 in the add on section of Mozilla. Default Search Engine 3.3 by JNF :)

Choose your search engine on FF4+. Customize the search engine used in your location bar.

Add to Firefox What do you think?

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No, I did this I do not see any settings. When I went to my address bar it still is a google search.... Now what...?

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Sorry I forgot, After left click on yahoo left click on magnifing glass in search engine box.

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My questions is about the main address bar not the small one to the right with the magnifying glass.

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MAKE YAHOO MY HOMEPAGE

From firefox startpage click tools > click Options > in the General tab's  - home page entry box type - www.yahoo.com and click ok

Modified by David241

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See the following article on setting the search engines

Search bar - add, change and manage search engines on Firefox

You can "Manage search engines", i.e. select Yahoo as your primary search engine.

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No I do not think you understand my main address bar is being redirected to a Google search. Not a Yahoo Search. It has nothing to do with the small search window that has the magnifying glass. It is my "main address search bar"

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Forget it.

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done, only trying to help sorry if i was confusing

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see make yahoo my homepage above

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Try to change your home page and new tabs. If you're not sure how to do that, let me know.

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Current Firefox versions use the default search engine (pref: browser.search.defaultenginename) to set the search engine that is used on the about:home page.

You can modify the browser.search.defaultenginename pref on the about:config page

  • browser.search.defaultenginename

Currently selected search engine:

  • browser.search.selectedEngine