firefox v.34.0.5 redirects search results to yahoo
was fixed in previous release, when I updated a few days ago, the problem reappeared
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hello roy0866, yahoo is preinstalled as the default us search provider in firefox 34 and above - the background to this change is explained in https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-and-innovation-on-the-web/
of course you are free to set your personally preferred search engine like google or any other choice as default though: Search bar - add, change and manage search engines on Firefox
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hello roy0866, yahoo is preinstalled as the default us search provider in firefox 34 and above - the background to this change is explained in https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-and-innovation-on-the-web/
of course you are free to set your personally preferred search engine like google or any other choice as default though: Search bar - add, change and manage search engines on Firefox
If you want to restore the previously used standalone window to manage search engines then you can toggle this pref to false with a middle-click on the about:config page.
about:config page: browser.search.showOneOffButtons = false
You need to close and restart Firefox to make this work properly.
In the address bar, type about:preferences#search<enter>
If you miss being able to switch search engines without going crazy with menus, try this out;
Context Search {web link} Expands the context menu's 'Search for' item into a list of installed search engines, allowing you to choose the engine you want to use for each search.