Firefox 34 Launches With Yahoo As Its Default Search Engine

FerchogtX said:

Phone Man said:

Yahoo is only the default setting. A lot of other search engines are still available so no big deal.

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I like the new search feature when you type anything in the search window it opens a drop down window and you can pick the one you want for that search or just use the default.

Jim

Weird... I just updated a couple of minutes ago, and this search options doesn't seem to show for me...
Any special setting or something?

It could be because FF decided to go with localized search engines. At least that's what I'm reading. US went with Yahoo, EU stayed with Google, Russia has Yandex.
You might have ended up with one of these: List of 34 Mexico search engines

Mozilla has it all screwed up. Users in the US were supposed to get the 34.0.5 update USLocal that has Yahoo as default, but my version is 34.0, there's supposed to be a 34.1 lurking out there somewhere.
From what I can understand Mozy wanted to revamp the search function for FF, wasn't sure how to do it, and ended up rushing the 34 update through. Don't be surprised if a v35 is in the very near future way before their normal release schedule.

Then there's the money angle: Yahoo and Mozilla Form Strategic Partnership | www.marketwatch.com


Related Links:
Firefox 34 / Possible to go back to the old search bar?
Don't Panic: Yahoo! is now default search in the U.S.
34.0.5 vs. 34.0

At least Yahoo still works in FF.

Since PM got split from FF, my context menu option for Yahoo search takes me to an error page.

Since I mainly search for images these days I'm forced to use Google.

margrave said:

I switched to Bing. Google has become too big and too intrusive for me.

Google mail account ... deleted.
Google docs ... deleted, and replaced with OneDrive.
Google maps ... replaced with Bing.

Pretty much the same as me. Quit using Google period over 2 years ago. Use Bing and ...... yes... Yahoo as my searchers. Mostly Bing, which is not bad at all btw. The ONLY "Google" I do is their Translate which is just soooooooo easy to use.

Anak said:

FerchogtX said:

Phone Man said:

Yahoo is only the default setting. A lot of other search engines are still available so no big deal.

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I like the new search feature when you type anything in the search window it opens a drop down window and you can pick the one you want for that search or just use the default.

Jim

Weird... I just updated a couple of minutes ago, and this search options doesn't seem to show for me...
Any special setting or something?

It could be because FF decided to go with localized search engines. At least that's what I'm reading. US went with Yahoo, EU stayed with Google, Russia has Yandex.
You might have ended up with one of these: List of 34 Mexico search engines

Mozilla has it all screwed up. Users in the US were supposed to get the 34.0.5 update USLocal that has Yahoo as default, but my version is 34.0, there's supposed to be a 34.1 lurking out there somewhere.
From what I can understand Mozy wanted to revamp the search function for FF, wasn't sure how to do it, and ended up rushing the 34 update through. Don't be surprised if a v35 is in the very near future way before their normal release schedule.

Then there's the money angle: Yahoo and Mozilla Form Strategic Partnership | www.marketwatch.com


Related Links:
Firefox 34 / Possible to go back to the old search bar?
Don't Panic: Yahoo! is now default search in the U.S.
34.0.5 vs. 34.0

That explains all... well, to wait for 35v then XD

Thanks for the info :)

FerchogtX said:

That explains all... well, to wait for 35v then XD

Thanks for the info :)

You're welcome.

lehnerus2000 said:

At least Yahoo still works in FF.

Since PM got split from FF, my context menu option for Yahoo search takes me to an error page.

Since I mainly search for images these days I'm forced to use Google.

lehnerus, You've probably already tried this, but have you tried removing and then reinstalling yahoo in PM?

Cross reference the search options in about:config with what FF has compared to PM, most settings can be seen by typing search in the about:config search bar.

If you migrated PM settings from FF, I did find: Pale Moon forum the last post by TheRealShane may help:

Also you can search the Firefox profile - if it still exists - for XML files. There will be an Amazon one and an Ebay one; copy those to the Pale Moon searchplugins folder in the Pale Moon profile and next time you start Pale Moon you'll see them in the Search engines drop down box.

Delete the yahoo XML file from PM and paste the fresh FF one in.

If this is a problem with PM you might try resetting PM as a last resort.

If this is a problem with the system and the context menu handler try a SFC /scannow.
Location in registry: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows might be a handy tool in your situation.

Anak said:

lehnerus, You've probably already tried this, but have you tried removing and then reinstalling yahoo in PM?

I hadn't tried that.

It turns out that there is no Yahoo Australia (Yahoo!7) search anymore.
I couldn't find a US one either.

I had to install Yahoo UK & Ireland search.

lehn, what badcrc came up with might be worth a try. You might not be willing from what I found out.

I looked around for awhile this (my) morning and really didn't find anything relating to forcing either FF or PM to accept Yahoo!7 as a search engine.

One item, You could have a corrupt search.json file. I also looked into about:config modifications these looked promising but I'm not sure how to manipulate them right now:

Code:

browser.search.hiddenOneOffs;Yahoo!7,Bing,Amazon.com,eBay,Twitter,Wikipedia (en)
browser.geolocation.warning.infoURL;https://www.mozilla.org/%LOCALE%/firefox/geolocation/
browser.search.searchEnginesURL;https://addons.mozilla.org/%LOCALE%/firefox/search-engines/

As you can see I added Yahoo!7 to the hiddenOneOffs pref, but FF didn't react to it.


Its difficult to correlate when I'm here in the States and I don't use PM. I believe this is being limited by the darn %LOCALE% parameter that FF uses.

You can set the default search engine by adjusting the config file (about:config).

I hate the combined Address/Search bars that most browsers use.
One reason I hate using IE and Chrome.

I usually use Context Search (~80% of the time).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ch/?src=search

I use the Search box ~20% of the time.

I looked around for awhile this (my) morning and really didn't find anything relating to forcing either FF or PM to accept Yahoo!7 as a search engine.

Thanks for looking. :)

I couldn't find it in the list of search tools.
I must have FF set to Yahoo! UK (in Linux Mint 17.1).