Default search engine keeps switching to Yahoo

I use Firefox, Chrome & Safari as network browsers. Suddenly, all of them are defaulting to Yahoo as the search engine. If I go into prefences and change it back to Google, it switches back to Yahoo immediately. It also switches my home page to Yahoo on all three browsers.

I recently installed new 3D software critical to my workflow, so I'm guessing that that has something to do with it, but I have no idea how to track this down.

Any help?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on May 7, 2013 12:44 PM

21 replies

Jun 6, 2013 1:12 PM in response to Linc Davis

I am hitching a ride on this comment thread because I have the same issue. Linc, the number that comes up for me is "540."

Jun 7, 2013 2:36 PM in response to Linc Davis

I am hitching a ride on this comment thread because I have the same issue. Linc, the number that comes up for me is "540."

Jan 5, 2014 3:16 AM in response to lhitch

Apple seems to succeed in anoying away their customers, hope they keep doing that, i mean, who wants to decide on their own what they like...

Reese954

Level 1

18 points

Oct 10, 2015 8:59 AM in response to VisionKwest

This fixed my problem. My problem extension was called "search" something.

Jan 10, 2017 8:40 AM in response to lhitch

It did definitely Help. Remove extension from Safari, Extension then remove unknown extension.

Jan 18, 2017 6:25 PM in response to lhitch

Check out this video, it explains your exact problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRjLtNRWTxw

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Default search engine keeps switching to Yahoo