Stop Yahoo! from opening in second tab when opening Google Chrome
I recently downloaded Vuze (torrent client), which as well as installing itself, installs a whole bunch of rubbish toolbars (mostly by an outfit called Spigot) and tries to change your default search engine to Yahoo!
In Safari and Firefox, I've managed to change it back but in Chrome, although I've deleted all the addons and restored my default search engine when ever I open up Chrome I get two tabs 1) my default homepage and 2) Yahoo! search page.
Where can I disable this Yahoo! search page? I've looked in the settings but could not find anywhere obvious (I've set back my default search engine to Google and deleted any add-ons) but this still doesn't do it.
My last resort is to do a factory reset of Chrome, which I don't want to do as I have all my settings in there.
I found the answer under Settings → On startup → Set pages.
Hi Had the same issue and finally got rid of it. This is what I did:
Control panel > Internet Options > Set home page to www.google.com
Control panel > Programs and features > removed applications installed on the same day I updated vuze, there was this app called sprigot
In Chrome > Icon top right corner > Settings > Search > "Set which search engine is used when searching from the omnibox". [set to google] > manage search engine > removed any reference to yahoo
In Chrome > Icon top right corner > Settings > On Start up > Set Pages > remove yahoo
Not sure if only one of these steps removed yahoo or I needed all of them, but if you follow this yahoo will be gone.
In Chrome, go to Preferences... which will take you to the Settings page. On the Settings page, click on the Extensions link in the column on the far left. If you have the Yahoo Extension enabled, uncheck the enabled box to disable it.