10-08-2016, 02:38 PM
Ah - you're confusing the various boxes, I'm afraid 
The Search Box is to the right of the Address Bar. Actually, now the Address Bar is called Awesome Bar because you can type search queries in here as well as web addresses:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awe...story-tabs
I still type queries in the Search Bar, and web addresses in the Awesome Bar (silly name!). Mostly out of habit, but also because sometimes you get odd results, just as you're seeing. Here, you're typing what you think is a query, but Firefox matches your text with a previous URL that you visited, and takes you to that - which is where Yahoo comes into play. So instead, type your search queries in the Search Bar. Problem solved
Article about the Search Bar:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use...ar-firefox
The Search Box is to the right of the Address Bar. Actually, now the Address Bar is called Awesome Bar because you can type search queries in here as well as web addresses:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awe...story-tabs
I still type queries in the Search Bar, and web addresses in the Awesome Bar (silly name!). Mostly out of habit, but also because sometimes you get odd results, just as you're seeing. Here, you're typing what you think is a query, but Firefox matches your text with a previous URL that you visited, and takes you to that - which is where Yahoo comes into play. So instead, type your search queries in the Search Bar. Problem solved
Article about the Search Bar:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use...ar-firefox
