Saturday, March 26, 2011

Changing Firefox4 Default Search Engine for Address Bar.

If your a FAN of firefox, im sure your now on Firefox4, as much as 'google chrome' is good and all, i still prefer Firefox, but there is just one annoying problem, when i used the address bar to search, the default search is 'bing'. As hard as Microsoft try's to improve their search, i think they have done a good job, its much better then the old MSN, but its no replacement to google, so how the heck do we change it to Google, its not tools > option, which i suppose it should be...

Ref: http://www.technipages.com/firefox-change-address-bar-search-provider.html

1. In Firefox type about:config in the address bar and press ENTER.


2. Locate and double-click the entry for keyword.URL


3.  Set the value based on which search
provider you would like to use for your address bar searches. Here are a
few search strings you can use.


Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=


Ask: http://www.ask.com/web?q=


Google: http://www.google.com/search?&q=


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