how to replace Yahoo with Firefox
when I first downloaded firefox 6.0 the Yahoo home page showed up. It comes up with the start menu even though the item says Mozilla Firefox. How do I make Firefox my home page as I thought it was? Yahoo shows no firefox name and therefore I cannot follow your instructions to change to Firefox.bold text
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I'm not sure what you might have from Yahoo, so here are several things:
Restore Home Page
Remove the Yahoo Toolbar
- "Ctrl+Shift+A" (Add-ons Manager)
- Select Puzzle piece on left-side for Extensions List
- Find "Yahoo Toolbar" and click on "Uninstall" button, and restart Firefox. (if you really need to keep the Yahoo toolbar, you can hide the toolbar instead with customize, and still change all the search defaults as below)
Then to fix the default search engine used at the Location Bar, change the value of keyword.URL in about:config to one of the values shown in Location Bar search at MozillaZine.
- Google Search (Google search results page)
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
- type in about:config into the location bar (in a new tab)
- if the warning message nonsense comes up uncheck the box before dismissing the dialog message
- filter on keyword
- right-click on keyword.URL and choose "modify" then paste in the Google search engine string of your choice.
- filter on defaulturl
- right-click on browser.search.defaulturl (if it exists)and again choose "modify" then paste in the Google search engine string of your choice.
- filter on ytff
- right-click on yahoo.ytff.search.popup_src (if it exists) and again choose "modify" then paste in the Google search engine string of your choice, if adventurous might see if "reset" would remove and see if gone in next session (well not for those keeping the extension).
Avoiding the problems: Many software installations contain additional baggage known as crapware. The Yahoo Toolbar is packaged with Java picture
More information on ask.com, Yahoo Toolbars which involve extensions, not just changes to the home page.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
- Uninstalling toolbars - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_toolbars
You can make Firefox 6.0.2 look like Firefox 3.6.*, see numbered items 1-10 in the following topic Fix Firefox 4.0 toolbar user interface, problems (Make Firefox 4.0 thru 8.0, look like 3.6). Whether or not you make changes, you should be aware of what has changed and what you have to do to use changed or missing features.
There is a lot more beyond those first 10 steps listed, if you want to make Firefox more functional.
Thank you. It will take me awhile and some courage to try your fix.
Thank you very much. It will take me some time and a ,lot of courage to gtry your fix.