How Did That Happen

[emmie]

my browser is firefox and in right hand corner is the search bar for google, only its not google any more, but Yahoo, how did that come about, if you understand me.

[hc4361]

Have you downloaded anything that had a box to uncheck a box that changes your search engine to Yahoo?

Bet you have

[davegosling]

You did something, maybe without realising it, which changed your default search engine. Just change it back:

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/change-your-default-search-engine-in-firefox-google-chrome-ie-original/24378/

[emmie]

had to go into the bars that look like a hamburger, because i had lost my google search bar, does that make sense, whoever told me click on hamburger go to customise and drag the option across to search bar.

[emmie]

which i did and now i have yahoo instead of google..

[davegosling]

Is it fixed now?

[davegosling]

Hurrah! Buenchico will be along shortly to tell you exactly the same thing... ;-)

[emmie]

yes its done, you learn something on here everyday..

[emmie]

thanks guys well done....

[ferlew]

Mine keeps on doing that with Firefox, and I just change back to Google for default. No idea why it does it though.

[davegosling]

Depending on make and version of operating system, just go into the place where you uninstall applications that you no longer want, find everything called Yahoo Search / Yahoo Toolbar etc and uninstall.

You can also remove search engines from FireFox (and other browsers):
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox#w_remove-search-engines_2