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I want searches from my 'address bar' to be Google and not Yahoo

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Either Firefox or McAfee gave me a pop-up about "Safe Search". I'm not sure what I clicked, but now when I type a search or website address into the 'address' bar on my firefox (latest version), I just get a list of websites in yahoo. For example, previously, if typed "BBC" I would be redirected to the BBC website, whereas now I just get a list of Yahoo results about "BBC". Please help - I have searched quite a few places for a solution.

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== Last 48 hours

Either Firefox or McAfee gave me a pop-up about "Safe Search". I'm not sure what I clicked, but now when I type a search or website address into the 'address' bar on my firefox (latest version), I just get a list of websites in yahoo. For example, previously, if typed "BBC" I would be redirected to the BBC website, whereas now I just get a list of Yahoo results about "BBC". Please help - I have searched quite a few places for a solution. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Last 48 hours

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Hello Fin.

Hopefully this support article is what you need:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Searches+are+redirected+to+another+site

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I mean the "Navigation Toolbar"

... giving "Yahoo" results instead of "Direction to best-fit website and/or redirection to Google results.

Thanks

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I don't want to do the uninstall (and reinstall) option - because then I'll lose all my history etc...

I just want the navigation bar to go back to its default operation - and not do the Yahoo thing.

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Hello Fin.

Hopefully this support article is what you need:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Searches+are+redirected+to+another+site

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Dear Morbus,

You are a superstar!

Thank you. It working now.

Thank you for taking the time to point me in the right direction.

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You're very welcome. I'm glad it's fixed :)