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Why does the browser refuse to let me choose my search engine?

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cityguygonecountry
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Ever since upgrading to windows 10 ALL my browsers seem to think search.yahoo is what "I" want. I want to control my computer not my computer control me! After much frustration I uninstalled "Resultshub" from my computer and so far MS Edge, IE, and Chrome do not default to search.yahoo. Only Firefox does and I'm sick and tired of it. "We All" should be able to choose/select the homepage and web search agent we choose. If Firefox doesn't fix this issue, I'll remove it altogether.

Ever since upgrading to windows 10 ALL my browsers seem to think search.yahoo is what "I" want. I want to control my computer not my computer control me! After much frustration I uninstalled "Resultshub" from my computer and so far MS Edge, IE, and Chrome do not default to search.yahoo. Only Firefox does and I'm sick and tired of it. "We All" should be able to choose/select the homepage and web search agent we choose. If Firefox doesn't fix this issue, I'll remove it altogether.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I think you missed a spot: your Question Details > More System Details shows an extension named Results Hub is still enabled.

Most likely you can use the Add-ons page to clear that out. Either:

  • Ctrl+Shift+a
  • "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons

In the left column, click Extensions. Then find Results Hub on the right side and Disable or, if possible Remove.

If Remove is not available, the extension is in a shared location rather than in your personal settings folder. We'll have to have you look under the covers to track it down...

cor-el
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Your System Detail list shows that you have a user.js file in the profile folder to initialize prefs each time Firefox starts. The user.js file will only be present if you or other software has created this file and normally won't be present.

You can check its content with a plain text editor (right-click: "Open with"; do not double-click). The user.js file is read each time Firefox is started and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so preferences set via user.js can only be changed temporarily for the current session.

You can delete the user.js file if you didn't create this file yourself.

You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder:

Windows hides some file extensions by default. Among them .html and .ini and .js and .txt and you may only see a file name without file extension. You can check the file extension (type) in the properties of the file in Windows Explorer via the right-click context menu.