The new version of Firefox is forcing me to use Yahoo. Every time I change the preferences it switches it back to Yahoo. How do I switch to Google?
Firefox is forcing me to use Yahoo. I've tried everything to change my settings back to Google and it immediately changes it back to Yahoo. So annoying! How do I fix this? Thanks.
Gekose oplossing
ok, please go to the firefox menu ≡ > addons > extensions, remove the "Searchme 2.3" addon and see if this can resolve the issue...
Lees dié antwoord in konteks 👍 1All Replies (5)
hello, could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...
Thanks for helping me out!
Application Basics
Name: Firefox Version: 34.0.5 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0 Multiprocess Windows: 0/1
Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days
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Extensions
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Name: Hola Better Internet Version: 1.5.695 Enabled: true ID: jid1-4P0kohSJxU1qGg@jetpack
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JavaScript
Incremental GC: true
Accessibility
Activated: false Prevent Accessibility: 0
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Experimental Features
Gekose oplossing
ok, please go to the firefox menu ≡ > addons > extensions, remove the "Searchme 2.3" addon and see if this can resolve the issue...
Thanks that worked!!!
What was it?
this was probably just some dubious adware addon without much benefit... glad you got the issue resolved.
Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page