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yahoo safety search

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parkhurs
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How did "yahoo safety search" get into my firefox browser, and how do I get rid of it permanently? I want nothing to do with yahoo. I want duckduckgo back as my search engine.

How did "yahoo safety search" get into my firefox browser, and how do I get rid of it permanently? I want nothing to do with yahoo. I want duckduckgo back as my search engine.

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Terry
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You can remove Yahoo or at least make DDG your default search engine.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-settings-firefox

James
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Firefox has not come with anything Yahoo related since Firefox 57.0 so it did not come from Mozilla or the Firefox web browser. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/712925

Maybe an extension you have installed in Firefox or updated recently has added this Yahoo search as some extensions have added such search engines in Firefox over the years.

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cor-el
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You can check for recently installed suspicious or unknown extensions.

Start Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration or if userChrome.css/userContent.css is causing the problem.

  • switch to the Default System theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes
  • do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Troubleshoot Mode start window