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I've been plagued recently by the infamous "Yahoo Search has hijacked my search bar in Firefox" problem. Like a thousand other people, Googling for that search generally yields nothing concrete. Most of the answers show that responders simply haven't understood the problem - "just set your home page" - no it's the damn URL search bar thingy, not my home page you idiot, etc. etc. Anyway, someone gave me an idea - "Search for the yahoo.xml file and delete it, it's in C:\Users\ \AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ .default\searchplugins\yahoo.xml" And there it was, so I deleted it and guess what? Nope, it didn't make a blind bit of difference. So I carried on looking, and there, in C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\browser\searchplugins is the offending file. Shut Firefox and then delete the bugger. Job done. No, don't thank me, sponsor me... (Well, it worked for me. No hate-mail please ).  

Ar*e. On Friday evening I went to get up and my knee gave way. Not in the "oh, I'll just sway a bit" way, but, "F**k, that hurts like hell and I can't walk now" way. I somehow managed to hop upstairs to bed. It kept me up most of the night with the pain. I went to the hospital (minor injuries) the next morning. "Sorry, it's not swollen/broken/cut/bruised or generally anything we can fix. Here's a pair of crutches. Bye" I limped around like The Karate Kid doing that stork impression for most of the weekend. The doctor on Monday was more helpful. "You've pulled a tendon (or something), there's nothing we can do. Just rest it for three weeks." I then mentioned the magic words - "Private Health care". "Oooh, go and see a physiotherapist, but they probably won't be able to do anything..." I went to the company doctor (for referral to the PH scheme) who was even more helpful - he actually did ...