Comments on: Change Default Search Engine in Firefox

By: Deepanshu Goel

Deepanshu Goel — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:17:16 +0000

@vinpao
thanks for sharing that useful firefox tip

@gay @Sujay Krishna
thanks for comments

By: Sujay Krishna

Sujay Krishna — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:51:38 +0000

Thnx…. Gr8 one…

By: gay

gay — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:56:36 +0000

This is very helpful!.. thanks a lot.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:09:56 +0000

Thanks a lot!

By: vinpao

vinpao — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:25:28 +0000

Changing the keyword.URL field in Firefox might not work.
Firefox 3.5 was still defaulting to Yahoo as the search engine for the address bar.
I run REGEDIT and searched for “yahoo”: I found 4 entries like WS_FF_AB and WS_IE_AB all set to some yahoo pages.
I deleted them and now the default search depends on the keyword.URL field in about:config

also, check out
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search
for different settings of the keyword.URL value.

By: Banher Sandhu

Banher Sandhu — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:18:05 +0000

Hi,
Its great for non professional surfers. Thanks

By: Mark M

Mark M — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:23:14 +0000

For me, when I did this, a search via the title bar took me immediately to the first google result (abc.com for a Desperate Housewives search, for example). However, I deleted the “&gfns=1″ out of the string and now it gives me the normal google results page. thank you!

By: Hart

Hart — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:26:43 +0000

Thanks, this is quite helpful. “Kiwee toolbar” or some such crap F-ed mine up.

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:30:22 +0000

Thank you so much! Megaupload changed mine to Yahoo, and I’ve only ever used google. This is really appreciated, 5 out of 5!