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Did you originally install Firefox through a Yahoo ad? Yahoo used to run ads for Firefox keywords to get you to download their version of the browser. The ads l

Did you originally install Firefox through a Yahoo ad? Yahoo used to run ads for Firefox keywords to get you to download their version of the browser. The ads looked like search results, so it was easy to visit the wrong download page.

remarkEon 8y ago
No, I'm certain I did not. As an aside, wouldn't that mean I'd be running a Yahoo-ized version of Firefox?
- JoshMnem 8y ago
  I don't know, but I haven't seen the search change to Yahoo on my computer, except when I briefly tried Linux Mint many years ago. Mint had set Firefox and Chromium to Yahoo and made it extremely difficult to remove. It was both browsers, so I'm assuming that it was Mint that did it and not Mozilla.
  - rhelmer 8y ago
    Would you mind pasting your `about:support` somewhere (github gist, pastebin, etc) and linking it here?
    - JoshMnem 8y ago
      Me? I'm not having trouble with Firefox. The Yahoo problem with Linux Mint was many years ago. My search engines in Firefox haven't switched on me since I uninstalled Mint.
      - rhelmer 8y ago
        Ah, missed that. Cool.