OK, all you techies. Using Firefox, it always defaults to yahoo for a search engine. I can go into Firefox Options and set google as the default search engine, but results always come back in yahoo. I can enter a search item in the Search block on the top line and click on Google as the search engine, and the results come back in yahoo. I have even removed yahoo from the list of search engines. And any google search still comes back in yahoo.I can open a google.com page and enter a search item and the results come back in yahoo.This is something that started happening a couple months ago. Before, a google search always came back in google. How do I get it back?

Try setting the home page to Google?

If you have the most recent version (54?) then you click on the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right and then the Options "gear icon" and then Search on the left hand side of the screen. Use the Default Search Engine to set the search option. If Google is not listed you have to go to the bottom and click on the "find more search engines link and work your way around to find Google Search. They make it as frustrating as possible.

current Firefox is 57.0.1 (64 bit).. fyi :)

I seem to recall that at one time if you allowed Yahoo to set itself as your default homepage, it also set your search engine. Any attempt to change the setting to another engine just resulted in it changing back the next time FF was started. An Google search might turn up how to fix it.

Bill.Satellite wrote:If you have the most recent version (54?) then you click on the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right and then the Options "gear icon" and then Search on the left hand side of the screen. Use the Default Search Engine to set the search option. If Google is not listed you have to go to the bottom and click on the "find more search engines link and work your way around to find Google Search. They make it as frustrating as possible.This is exactly what I did. And it still reverts to yahoo. I even removed yahoo from the list of search engines and Firefox puts it back.

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2oldman
Explorer II
Dec 05, 2017
A google search turns up the fix for this.. but apparently that doesn't work.
BB_TX
Nomad
Dec 05, 2017
Bill.Satellite wrote:
If you have the most recent version (54?) then you click on the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right and then the Options "gear icon" and then Search on the left hand side of the screen. Use the Default Search Engine to set the search option. If Google is not listed you have to go to the bottom and click on the "find more search engines link and work your way around to find Google Search. They make it as frustrating as possible.

This is exactly what I did. And it still reverts to yahoo. I even removed yahoo from the list of search engines and Firefox puts it back.
Dutch_12078
Explorer II
Dec 05, 2017
I seem to recall that at one time if you allowed Yahoo to set itself as your default homepage, it also set your search engine. Any attempt to change the setting to another engine just resulted in it changing back the next time FF was started. An Google search might turn up how to fix it.
Chuck_thehammer
Explorer
Dec 05, 2017
current Firefox is 57.0.1 (64 bit).. fyi :)
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Dec 05, 2017
If you have the most recent version (54?) then you click on the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right and then the Options "gear icon" and then Search on the left hand side of the screen. Use the Default Search Engine to set the search option. If Google is not listed you have to go to the bottom and click on the "find more search engines link and work your way around to find Google Search. They make it as frustrating as possible.
pianotuna
Nomad III
Dec 05, 2017
Try setting the home page to Google?

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