[Closed] Google searches go straight to Yahoo. Confused.

When you say search "via Google", how do you do that? Are you going to Google.com / .co.uk / etc, and typing in the search?

Or are you typing into the browser address bar?

If the latter, then it sounds like the default search engine has been changed to Yahoo. Classic is having installed some bit of software which installs a Yahoo toolbar and sets the default search engine, unless you opt out of it.

In Firefox homepage is

https://www.google.co.uk/

I did have a weird toolbar appear recently when I installed WinAmp. I uninstalled it. I'm not sure if the Yahoo issue existed prior to the installation of WinAmp or not.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1084243

Cheers Neal, I'll give it a go tomorrow.

You should be able to uninstall the toolbar using "Programs and Features" from the Windows' Control Panel; with any luck this should reset things back to normal.

Ambrose - Member

I did have a weird toolbar appear recently when I installed WinAmp.

Sorry for asking this, but....is WinAmp still a thing?

Was about to ask the same, Winamp and Firefox did my time machine work?

My MacBook keeps having a yahoo pop up. How do I get rid of it?
My browser was google then it became bing then back to google all by itself.

Looks like Winamp download links are all a bit iffy. Seems to be some new development going on after it's changed hands though, but existing downloads are on sites that love to bundle crapware with them.

Myself I use foobar2000 at times. Wide range of audio format support, loads of plugins, converters and encoders, etc.

I did have a weird toolbar appear recently when I installed WinAmp.

Sorry for asking this, but....is WinAmp still a thing?

Sorry for asking this, but.... are random weird toolbars (that people just automatically click OK to) still a thing?

Does it still whip the lama's ass?

WinAmp... Foobar.... What year is it!

VLC is the only media player for me.

andytherocketeer - Member
Sorry for asking this, but.... are random weird toolbars (that people just automatically click OK to) still a thing?

Not always obvious, especially things like the crapware that sourceforge was bundling in installers a while back.

plyphon - Member
WinAmp... Foobar.... What year is it!

Good point

plyphon - Member
VLC is the only media player for me.

Oh dear

Does it still whip the lama's ass?

Curses, I was going to ask that.

VLC is the only media player for me.

Likewise. There might be better options, but I've used VLC for donkeys' years and it's never put a foot wrong.

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YAYYYYY!!!! thanks Neal, Google is back.

Now however I feel that WinAmp is not the player of STW choice.

I'll give this VLC thingy a go.

VLC is more of a video player really.

Groove is built into Win 10 (or in the store at least), and has handy ability to play/stream any music you've dumped in your OneDrive account, from anywhere in the world, on mobile, etc. Plus can index all your music on your PC / server, if you like.

Or, Plex will do similar. Again, video focused, but has nice indexing of music now. Needs a server though, or an online account, I think. Not sure if the Plex app has sorted out gapless playback however.

I really use Windows Media Player for MP3s.

And VLC for videos (rare these days) or FLAC/WAV etc audio.