Yahoo Hijack

[david13]

Yahoo search has hijacked my Alta Vista. How did that happen? How can I get rid of it?
I may go back to Google, if I can avoid the drop down suggest. But how did this Yahoo hijack occur?
I'd like to get a fix for that.
dc

[blogslut]

1. What browser are you using?

It may be a matter of going into settings and/or preferences to see what your "default" search engine is set to and changing that.

[david13]

2. Alta Vista. I dropped it and went back to Google, since blogslut

found a portal to the old non suggestion google.
So I'm using that.
I tried all the preferences and all that stuff. I was just simply a yahoo hijack.
dc

[david13]

3. Oh, you're blogslut. dc

[blogslut]

4. I mean, what browser are you using?

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome?

[david13]

5. Firefox.

dc

[blogslut]

6. Well, that's weird

Your reply didn't show up in My DU. I apologize for responding so late.

Okay. Try this:

Open a new tab and in your address bar, type about:config and press the enter key on your keyboard. Look for this item on the list:

browser.search.defaultenginename

In order to change it, double-click the list item and type the name of the search engine you want (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Alta Vista, whatever) into the box and press the "Okay" button. Then close that tab.

[david13]

7. Weird is the world. Or something.

I know, again on another forum I am dealing with, getting an email, with a response to a post in it, and then linking to the forum thread, and bingo, the post I got is not there. I think it's because the link is slower than the email.
Or something.
Now, Firefox and the Google suggest idea. Or, no, this is the Yahoo hijack issue. I dropped Alta Vista, because of the Yahoo hijack, because you gave me the link to a Google page with no suggest, and because Google search gives a lot more response, and related response than does Alta Vista.
So I'm back to Google and happy with it, thanks to you and your link, except for the Google image search, which still gives me suggest.
Anyway, computers are funny. And people don't know. I think that with a website, you will get different things from it, depending on the portal you use to enter it. Some things can only be found with the appropriate portal. Some things cannot be accessed from the home page of the website. Etc.
And people don't know. I had a girl yesterday, making Excel Spreadsheets, and she went to a city website to get some info. However, she did not realize that she was shunted to a commercial site by her searcher, not the city gov site.
And she's the brains behind the computer operation for my neighbors.
Yike.
dc

[blogslut]

8. I was addressing your Yahoo hijack thingy

Your browser software (Firefox) has certain default settings, one of them being a default search engine site. I was thinking that somehow, those default settings got changed and I was showing you how to change them back.

I'm guessing there is a wee search box in your Firefox toolbar up at the top of the browser? That's the default search engine.

Me, personally, I remove that search box with each upgrade of Firefox - it takes up too much monitor space and I've got my homepage set to Google so I have no real need for it.

If you ever want to clean up and improve your Firefox Toolbar/Menu, here's what you do:

Click on "View" from your top Menu on Firefox. You'll get a drop-down menu with choices such as whether or not you want see a Sidebar or have a Bookmarks toolbar. There's also my favorite: View > Toolbars > Customize. When you click on Customize, you get a drag-and-drop dialog box where you remove Icons/Tools you don't want by dragging them from the Toolbar and dropping them into that dialog box. You can also drag items from the dialog box up to the Toolbar to add Icons/Tools you do want. If you don't like your changes, you can just change things back via the same process.

:hi:

[david13]

9. Now you are asking me to remember that. I probably can't, unless

I wake up remembering it in the middle of the night.
I'm lucky if I can remember what I had for lunch.
I am sure it still said, well, read ...
I don't remember.
But this issue came up on 3, nonetheless than 3 computers that I use. So I didn't see how it could have been that.
I wonder if I can recreate the issue?
Let me try, and I'll see.
dc

[david13]

10. Yessirree bob, or maam as the case may be.

It said google, but still, even now, comes up with yahoo.
I think it's a bona fide yahoo hijack.
dc

[blogslut]

11. Have you tried to do the steps I gave you in #6?

?