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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?

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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.

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.

Chosen solution

ok, please go to the firefox menu ≡ > addons > extensions, remove the "Searchme 2.3" addon and see if this can resolve the issue...

Disable or remove Add-ons

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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


All Crash Reports

Extensions


Name: Boomerang for GMail Version: 1.2.1 Enabled: true ID: {65e41d20-f092-41b7-bb83-c6e8a9ab0f57}

Name: Hola Better Internet Version: 1.5.695 Enabled: true ID: jid1-4P0kohSJxU1qGg@jetpack

Name: Searchme Version: 2.3 Enabled: true ID: searchme@mybrowserbar.com

Graphics


Device ID: 0x a2e GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 OpenGL (OMTC) Vendor ID: 0x8086 WebGL Renderer: Intel Inc. -- Intel Iris OpenGL Engine windowLayerManagerRemote: true AzureCanvasBackend: quartz AzureContentBackend: quartz AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0

Important Modified Preferences


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Important Locked Preferences


JavaScript


Incremental GC: true

Accessibility


Activated: false Prevent Accessibility: 0

Library Versions


NSPR Expected minimum version: 4.10.7 Version in use: 4.10.7

NSS Expected minimum version: 3.17.2 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.17.2 Basic ECC

NSSSMIME Expected minimum version: 3.17.2 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.17.2 Basic ECC

NSSSSL Expected minimum version: 3.17.2 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.17.2 Basic ECC

NSSUTIL Expected minimum version: 3.17.2 Version in use: 3.17.2

Experimental Features


Chosen Solution

ok, please go to the firefox menu ≡ > addons > extensions, remove the "Searchme 2.3" addon and see if this can resolve the issue...

Disable or remove Add-ons

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