I can't seem to find an answer to my problem using suggestions I've found on the internet so hopefully someone here can help.
I usually use Google as my browser on Safari. Today, while doing a search, I clicked on a URL and noticed that the page I had clicked on suddenly skipped and gave me something else. Didn't think much of it.
Now, I've noticed that when I key in my search query into the URL field on Safari, it will first show a list of search results on a Google page but before I can do anything, it skips to Yahoo. To make it worse, because I live in Germany, the Yahoo page just suggests German sites first. For example, I couldn't find this site at all. Lots of other stuff kept coming up with the extension .de for Germany.
Elsewhere people have suggested:
- clearing your cache/history
- going to Preferences -> General and change homepage from Yahoo to google. It's still showing Google like before. No change.
- going to Preferences ->Extensions and deleting the extension there. I deleted the iTube Downloader which was there although I don't think that was the problem cos I've had it for about 4 days and everything was ok up till earlier today.
- look for a file called Spigot and delete it. I can't find such a file. This should come up when I search under Finder ->My MAC, right?
- look for Searchsettings.exe and delete it. No such file either.
- I've deleted the iTube Downloader file from my applications folder and also the download file.
Does anyone have any other ideas?
Many thanks!
I usually use Google as my browser on Safari. Today, while doing a search, I clicked on a URL and noticed that the page I had clicked on suddenly skipped and gave me something else. Didn't think much of it.
Now, I've noticed that when I key in my search query into the URL field on Safari, it will first show a list of search results on a Google page but before I can do anything, it skips to Yahoo. To make it worse, because I live in Germany, the Yahoo page just suggests German sites first. For example, I couldn't find this site at all. Lots of other stuff kept coming up with the extension .de for Germany.
Elsewhere people have suggested:
- clearing your cache/history
- going to Preferences -> General and change homepage from Yahoo to google. It's still showing Google like before. No change.
- going to Preferences ->Extensions and deleting the extension there. I deleted the iTube Downloader which was there although I don't think that was the problem cos I've had it for about 4 days and everything was ok up till earlier today.
- look for a file called Spigot and delete it. I can't find such a file. This should come up when I search under Finder ->My MAC, right?
- look for Searchsettings.exe and delete it. No such file either.
- I've deleted the iTube Downloader file from my applications folder and also the download file.
Does anyone have any other ideas?
Many thanks!
