


I tried two antivirus scans: malwarebytes and AGV but neither did a thing. It seems “” has hijacked my google search engine. only writing to say I’ve got the same problem–I’ve used Chrome for yearsss, and this just happened today. Ran Malwarebytes and Sophos Home, which said my Mac is clean-no virus Unable to change default search engine in Chrome with I’d rather only reset my chrome settings as a last resort. All the other solutions I found online was for windows, but I have a Mac. I’ve tried Malwarebytes and deleted everything that came up. This issue was reported by users a few months ago and it still seems to be hanging around for some.Ĭhrome won’t let me change my default search engine back to google after it shut down unexpectedly. Users have claimed that there default search engine is changed to some website called ‘ ‘, and they are unable to get rid of it.


As Apple realized, eventually, that’s plain daft.If you are also one of those users who are unable to change their search engines on Google Chrome on Mac, then you have stumbled on the right place. Previously, as you’ll see below, you had to open Safari to, say, make Google Chrome the default browser. Apple changed the way you set the default browser in OS X Yosemite and it has remained the same since then. How to set the default browser on Mac through System Preferences. The Change All button will change all file types for that app so that any other customizations will revert back to defaults. Choose the preferred program and it will instantly change the default Mac app for that file type. The drop down box will list all the OS X apps that can handle that file type. This button will set your Mac to use the selected application to open files of this type. Now that you’ve changed the default program for this file, the button for Change All is active. Continue to hold OPTION and select the application you want to set as the default for this file. 1: Set the Default Application for a Specific File in Mac OS X From the OS X Finder, right-click (or Control+Click) on the file to change the default app for and hold down the OPTION.
