Yahoo! Messenger messes up Firefox
This is for those who are using Firefox and Yahoo! Messenger but very much in love with Google Search.
One fine day you happily installed Yahoo! Messenger on your computer. Then you realized that your happiness was short lived when you discovered that Yahoo!, without asking for your permission, had changed your Firefox Location Bar and Default Search Engine. Now when you put in your keywords in the location bar, Yahoo! Search would be fired up instead of your beloved Google Search. You then looked all over Firefox and unfortunately, there was no way to remove it.
You can now live with it or you can do the following…
Changing the Location Bar search
- Type about:config in the location bar aka address bar and press enter.
- Type keyword.URL in Filter.
- Double-click on the displayed line.
- A box will pop up. Change the string value to http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
- Or if you want to fire up the Lucky Search, use http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=
That’s it for the Location Bar search. If you want it to search using something else, you can always modify the string value to your liking.
Changing the Default Search Engine
- Type about:config in the location bar aka address bar and press enter.
- Type browser.search.defaultenginename in Filter.
- Double-click on the displayed line.
- A box will pop up. Change the string value from Yahoo to Google.
Done.
You are now free of Yahoo!
Khidhir
Lauren
FiSh
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amirulfaiz
Yahooo… no more yahoo! messing up without permission.
I don’t use YM a lot, since there’s FB chat.
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papabear
good for you
cikidong
apak Cikidong salu guna yahoo mail je… otomatik ada yahoo mesenger mail version
papabear
bagus, tak banyak masalah
lankapo
hehe Firefox dah jadi bini no 2,
sudah lama terpikat dgn Chrome..
Chrome Rawksss
papabear
dah cuba Chrome tapi tetap balik ke FF jugak…
cheqna
thanks for d info, never bother before to check even thou I do d search most of the days..hehehe..
my YM hv been idled for a while cos i’m using gmail chat or yahoo mail chat…FB as usual still hibernating..haha..
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papabear
searching for food eh? hehe..:P
cheqna
hahaha..i have to stop posting on my eating habit (but best buat org lain lapar as well..hehe..)
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papabear
no don’t stop please
cheqna
so u dont blame me for that bubur kacang u had yesterday eh?..hehe..
u r right..how could i stop when i love cooking n eating!..haha..
papabear
that’s the way it should be… LOL!
zik
bookmark first… then will be setting…
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papabear
good luck!
lowongan kerja
hmm i haven’t face this kind of issue before.. but.. if i had, i know how to solve it and thanks to you.
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papabear
you are welcome
NK
nice tutorial!
really? i dont think my ym is messing around with my ff,
well the simple solution is, change to google chrome, u can do search on google simply just by typing in the address bar~
papabear
FF default is google search in the address bar and this is how to solve the YM intrusion…
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always google chrome. say no to Yahoo
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papabear
no Yahoo!
farah
great!!i like it..thanks ya bgtaw:)
papabear
you are welcome!
ken
so geeky.. haha.. i dont use yahoo messenger =P
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papabear
geeky eh?
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Anne Boleyn
papabear, ayam tu ada jual kat The Garden kat Lower Ground. nama kedainya Shih Lin kot.
p/s: jom lah tengok pengalaman hana masa nuffnang sharring session kat sini :
http://hanalovenest.blogspot.com/2010/07/nuffnang-sharring-session-pak-li.html
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papabear
Shin Lin Kot… thanks… kalau jalan2 kat sana nanti boleh try
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papabear
haha… tak tau pun kenapa masih ramai guna YM… so tak yah la buat entri ya
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