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Yahoo has hijacked my browser home page. How do I get rid of?

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Somehow Yahoo has taken over my primary brower page and I never downloaded. How do I eliminate?

Somehow Yahoo has taken over my primary brower page and I never downloaded. How do I eliminate?

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Screenshot of the issue so others can see what next steps that should be taken to figure what is happening on the Browser?

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herbrp said

Somehow Yahoo has taken over my primary brower page and I never downloaded. How do I eliminate?

Firefox has not come with a Yahoo search engine since March 2018 and likely never will again. /forums/contributors/712925

Perhaps it was install by an Extension you installed or updated recently.

Or something external has added this change https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-search-hijacking

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extension-changed-my-new-tab-page https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/wrong-home-page-opens-when-i-start-firefox-how-fix

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