Comments on: Firefox Toolbar: Beta no more!

By: R

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:34:40 +0000

Somehow I installed your beta mail on my new computer and I don’t want it.

How do I delete it and get regular hotmail back?

By: Jon Granrose

Jon Granrose — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:22:49 +0000

Vlad - it sounds like you have installed a program (Toolbar, Messenger, etc.) that set your Firefox address bar search to Yahoo. To set your address bar search back to the Firefox default (Google), you can follow the instructions on this web page: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/toolbar/troubleshootff/toolbar-32.html

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:13:38 +0000

Is there anyone who replies on this blog?? Lately my firefox is not showing me the “Page not found” alert, instead of that there is automatic yahoo search. I DON’T WANT IT!! I hate automatic searches, if I want to search for something I open yahoo or google and I do it by myself. HOW TO DISABLE this feature?

By: Robert Serviss

Robert Serviss — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:37:35 +0000

I like Yahoo I want to cancel Beta I been having problems. I want to go back to yahoo 7.5. I have problem with IM.

Thanks

By: Marios

Marios — Wed, 31 May 2006 22:11:30 +0000

if you haven’t figured it out yet, you can unistall the yahoo toolbar, (in firefox), by going “tools->extentions->uninstall yahoo toolbar”

you’re welcome

sorry to say dudes. google fan for ever… it just rocks.

By: YahBlu

YahBlu — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:43:54 +0000

The location bar is at the top where u type ur url,I’ll have to agree that Yahoo takes over google as the search engine without warnings.Usually one can type in url without the .com,with Yahoo toolbar u go to a yahoo seach site.No thanks…….

By: naomi freeman lewis

naomi freeman lewis — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:39:46 +0000

Please tell me how to cancel yahoo mail beta asap

By: another Former yahoo fan

another Former yahoo fan — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:17:32 +0000

I had the same experience EXACTLY as former yahoo fan. Unfortunately, i don’t know what he meant by step 1:

1. Type about:config in your location bar. This will display a list of configurations for your browser. The bolded ones have been changed from the default.

what location bar? Please help me!!!! I want this off of my computer NOW! I have done the same thing he did by uninstalling everything with Yahoo’s name on it. As far as Im concerned, I will NEVER use Yahoo again.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:36:10 +0000

I love my Yahoo toolbar. thanks!

By: Former Yahoo fan

Former Yahoo fan — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:34:32 +0000

I tried to install Yahoo messenger and got a whole mess of additional features. The worst was that my firefox browser was messed with so the location bar would no longer automatically find the closest matching site to the term i entered. So for example, “target” would take me to a “no rsults” page which was totally annoying vs. the target.com site which is what I wanted. So, I uninstslled every Yahoo program and it *still* did not go away. I couldn’t believe that Yahoo would stoop to such nefarious activity of changing hidden parameters that arent’t easily editable. So, after some very angry searching, I found information about the Firefox configuration files and was able to recover my previous searching setup. For all those who have run into the same situation, what you need to do is: 1. Type about:config in your location bar. This will display a list of configurations for your browser. The bolded ones have been changed from the default. 2. Right click on the ones that have the Yahoo url in it and set it to “reset”. This will get you back to Firefox default settings. 3. Close browser window and open new one. You should be all set.

I was a long-time fan and Yahoo user and now find myself sorely disappointed. While some aspects of the Yahoo toolbar looked interesting, there’s no way I’ll use it given the underhanded stuff that went along with it.