I'm probably just an idiot, but for some reason, I can't keep Google as the preferred search engines in the Options section of Firefox. I select options then search engines. I have entered Google in the "choose your default" field. I have also removed all other search engines from the "one-click search engines" box. Only Google is there. I did this yesterday around noon and by 3:00 or so (I had been on line the entire time) I searched for something and the system used Yahoo. It was back on my options screens as my default and as one of the One-click entries.
Am I doing something wrong or is Firefox forcing this? If so, is there any way to stop it without doing some really technical stuff?
I have looked and looked and there appears no way at all to contact Firefox. They just send you around in circles.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.
Search Engine Option Keeps being reset
- DanRaisch
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Re: Search Engine Option Keeps being reset
That may indicate that security software is preventing Firefox from saving changes to configuration settings. What security software are you using?
Also see - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
Also see - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
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Re: Search Engine Option Keeps being reset
If you're interested, the official Mozilla support forum :judycurtiss wrote: I have looked and looked and there appears no way at all to contact Firefox.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ge ... ty-support
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Re: Search Engine Option Keeps being reset
Try following instructions in this article so that you get the option to click "Don't Change" when it appears: http://techdows.com/2016/08/firefox-sea ... ature.html
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Re: Search Engine Option Keeps being reset
@judycurtiss :
You have done everything you could/should in 'Options' - to no avail apparantly.
You could check these two preferences in 'about:config' :
browser.search.defaultenginename
and
browser.search.defaultenginename.US
(You'll probably find that the latter is set to 'Yahoo', which you can change to Google)
Just to make absolutely sure that this is just about 'Yahoo' - would you take a look at this, please :
https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/8 ... m-redirect
Good luck - keeping my fingers crossed for you !
You have done everything you could/should in 'Options' - to no avail apparantly.
You could check these two preferences in 'about:config' :
browser.search.defaultenginename
and
browser.search.defaultenginename.US
(You'll probably find that the latter is set to 'Yahoo', which you can change to Google)
Just to make absolutely sure that this is just about 'Yahoo' - would you take a look at this, please :
https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/8 ... m-redirect
Good luck - keeping my fingers crossed for you !