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Firefox address bar bringing me to yahoo results

  • 04-08-2009 12:13AM
    #1
    okioffice84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭


    Hope someone has encountered this problem before. A mate of mine was messing about on my PC and since then, when I type in e.g. "youtube" into the address bar it brings me to a yahoo search page rather than directly to youtube.com page as it did before. It's driving me nuts as I'm so used to not needing to type in .com or .ie etc.
    I've checked the add-ons and there dosen't seem to be a yahoo one there and I've re-installed firefox 3.0 but no joy.
    any help appreciated...


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  • #2
    witnessmenow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭witnessmenow


    Do you still have IE? Check is that doing the same?


  • #3
    cpu-dude
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭cpu-dude


    okioffice84 wrote: »
    Hope someone has encountered this problem before. A mate of mine was messing about on my PC and since then, when I type in e.g. "youtube" into the address bar it brings me to a yahoo search page rather than directly to youtube.com page as it did before. It's driving me nuts as I'm so used to not needing to type in .com or .ie etc.
    I've checked the add-ons and there dosen't seem to be a yahoo one there and I've re-installed firefox 3.0 but no joy.
    any help appreciated...
    Check your search engine up the top right of Firefox and see if it's set to Yahoo.

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  • #4
    jeffk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,115 ✭✭✭jeffk


    http://www.rak****k.com/blog/2008/05/13/how-to-configure-firefox-address-bar-with-search-engines/

    Normally this happens when a program is installed and it changes this. A simple problem to fix!!


  • #5
    Gerry81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭Gerry81


    are you also running avg 8.0? avg have a firefox yahoo add on, its running on my laptop and does the same.


  • #6
    okioffice84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭okioffice84


    jeffk wrote: »
    http://www.rak****k.com/blog/2008/05/13/how-to-configure-firefox-address-bar-with-search-engines/

    Normally this happens when a program is installed and it changes this. A simple problem to fix!!

    Excellent, worked a treat. Thanks


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  • #7
    jeffk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,115 ✭✭✭jeffk


    No worries your welcome

    Whys that link edited i wonder :S


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