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Q: How can I get rid of Yahoo search on Mountain Lion  safari .

I have tried everything to get rid of Yahoo from my newly installed Mountain lion upgrade. I have a MBP mid 2011 17".  . I'm used to using Safari so I would ltke to keep using it. BUT, even though I have Google as my default or perferred search engine, Yahoo keeps coming up. I have already tried hiding tool bar & then individually putting up the print , home.etc. icons. But that doesn't work either. I have searched for an answer to no avail thus far. It's beginning to look like I either use Yahoo w/Safari or switch to FF or Chrome. Any answers I will be grateful for. Thanking you in advance. I could just scream at this point. LOL

 

And one other thing is bugging me to death. Is there any way to enlarge the toolbar & icons on Mountain Lion. They are very tiny...too tiny. I've tried everything I could think of.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), MACBOOK PRO 17" mid-2011

Posted on Jun 10, 2013 4:27 PM

by Kappy,Solvedanswer
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Take it, Carolyn. You know Safari better than I.

Posted on Jun 10, 2013 5:55 PM

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Q: How can I get rid of Yahoo search on Mountain Lion  safari .

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  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy Jun 10, 2013 4:27 PM in response to MUSICMISS
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    Jun 10, 2013 4:27 PM in response to MUSICMISS

    Happen to have a third-party extension or add-on for Safari (like GLIMS) that has changed the default?

  • by Carolyn Samit,Helpful

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Jun 10, 2013 4:29 PM in response to MUSICMISS
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    Jun 10, 2013 4:29 PM in response to MUSICMISS

    Try deleting the Safari .plist file. Preferences can become corrupted.

     

    Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder

     

    Type or copy paste the following:

     

    ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

     

    Click Go the move the com.apple.Safari.pist file to the Trash.

     

     

    Quit and relaunch Safari and check Safari > Preferences  > General. Make sure Google is selected.

  • by MUSICMISS,

    MUSICMISS MUSICMISS Jun 10, 2013 5:45 PM in response to Kappy
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    Jun 10, 2013 5:45 PM in response to Kappy

    Hi, First, now I have NO address bar. Google is set as my default search engine. I still get Yahoo when searching. I clicked 'show tool bar & nothing happened. (no addreaa bar but I do have all the icons that are supposed to be there, print, home, & extentions. These are the extentions I just installed yesterday; WOT--Reload button---Zoomintosafari---Facebookzoom---adblock. Where in the worl did the address bar go?lol...And thank you for your quick response.I recieved another reponse to delete the Safari.plist file, but I've never done that before. I will do it though if that might  solve this problem. Thanks again

  • by Kappy,Solvedanswer

    Kappy Kappy Jun 10, 2013 5:55 PM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Jun 10, 2013 5:55 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

    Take it, Carolyn. You know Safari better than I.

  • by MUSICMISS,

    MUSICMISS MUSICMISS Jun 10, 2013 6:21 PM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Jun 10, 2013 6:21 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

    Thank you , Carolyn. I'm going to try what you suggested , I thought you should know I just installed Mountain Lion Friday. It was a very smooth install with no problems at all. I had taken all advice to prepare this MBP before the install & I think that paid off in light of all the problems I read that others were having. So, even though ML has just been installed so recently, you think you're suggeston might do the trick? Ty , Dear.

  • by MUSICMISS,

    MUSICMISS MUSICMISS Jun 10, 2013 6:28 PM in response to Kappy
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    Jun 10, 2013 6:28 PM in response to Kappy

    Now that you brought up  the extention thing, I wasn't having any headaches until I installed those that I told you about. I took them right from the Safari Extention site, thinking they would be safe. Also, I've had those same ones before without problems. Boy, do I have a lot to learn, I guess. Thanks.

  • by MUSICMISS,

    MUSICMISS MUSICMISS Jun 10, 2013 6:57 PM in response to MUSICMISS
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    Jun 10, 2013 6:57 PM in response to MUSICMISS

    Well Carolyn, I did that minuever, but nothing happened. I still get YaHoo when I search. And yes, Google is my default search in preferences. Got another suggestion? And thank you.

  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Jun 11, 2013 3:41 PM in response to MUSICMISS
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    Jun 11, 2013 3:41 PM in response to MUSICMISS

    Try deleting the Cache associated with Safari.

     

     

    Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder

     

    Type or copy paste the following:

     

    ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db

     

    Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.

     

     

    Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Jun 11, 2013 3:44 PM in response to Kappy
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    Jun 11, 2013 3:44 PM in response to Kappy

    Thank you kind sir. This one's sticky

     

    Good guess on Glims though.

  • by MUSICMISS,

    MUSICMISS MUSICMISS Jun 11, 2013 6:02 PM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Jun 11, 2013 6:02 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

    Thank you Carolyn . Your suggestion did in fact work. I appreciate your help' That was driving me nuts. LOL

  • by Romans8.32,

    Romans8.32 Romans8.32 Sep 22, 2014 12:29 PM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Sep 22, 2014 12:29 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

    Hey Carolyn,

     

    I am having the same issue getting rid of the yahoo search. I tried deleting both things like you mentioned earlier for MUSICMISS, but the cache.db file keeps reappearing when I reopen safari. This problem originally occurred when I downloaded a new Adobe flash player update (I think it was a fake). I later deleted that as well as the MacKeeper that came with it. Any suggestions to getting my search bar back?

  • by martin.joshua,

    martin.joshua martin.joshua Oct 1, 2014 9:32 PM in response to Romans8.32
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    Oct 1, 2014 9:32 PM in response to Romans8.32

    Romans,

    I did the exact same thing as you and was having the exact same problem and none of these solutions worked. This worked for me though.

    Go to Safari > Preferences > Extensions. There should be one that says something weird about a new tab or a search bar with 1.0 at the end of it. Turn it off or delete it. It must have been installed with MacKeeper when you attempted to install Flash.

    Good luck!

  • by Alice Kang,

    Alice Kang Alice Kang Oct 6, 2014 10:02 AM in response to martin.joshua
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    Oct 6, 2014 10:02 AM in response to martin.joshua

    This was the only answer that worked for me along the string. It may have been that my issue was just simple. I didn't have any .plist with safari or caches to delete. Thank you.

  • by Romans8.32,

    Romans8.32 Romans8.32 Oct 6, 2014 11:21 AM in response to martin.joshua
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    Oct 6, 2014 11:21 AM in response to martin.joshua

    This did it! Thanks for helping out, it was driving me bananas.

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