iPhone App “Y! Messenger” Hijacks Safari Search Provider

8:36 pm on May 7th, 2009 | iPhone

I installed Yahoo! Messenger app on my iPhone today. Its fairly functional. I opened Safari to do some mundane thing and was surprised to see that my default search provider has been changed(hijacked) to Yahoo!

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Normally I was pissed. I like Google search. I hate crappy Yahoo! search. As simple as that. [Even though it pained me to see Jerry Yang get his butt kicked out of his own company]

So change the default search provider back to Google, by going though these simple steps.

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3 Responses to “iPhone App “Y! Messenger” Hijacks Safari Search Provider”

  1. Matt Penner says:
    January 2, 2010 at 1:03 am

    Thanks! Exactly what my wife and I were looking for.

    Reply
  2. Ed says:
    February 1, 2012 at 2:15 am

    Bloody Microsoft! Thanks for making it easy :)

    Reply

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