How to Change Your FireFox Location Bar Search Engine


	How to Change Your FireFox Location Bar Search Engine

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                                Angsuman Chakraborty                            </DIV>
                            <SPAN class="dateTime">October 25th, 2005</SPAN>
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<P>If you, like me, has been the victim of Yahoo Spyware aka Yahoo IM then you may notice that in the firefox location bar if you type in a keyword, it takes you to Yahoo preferences page. Previously it used to perform a Google "I'm Lucky" Search and take you to the first page of its search results automatically.</p> <P><SPAN id="more-841"></SPAN></p> <P>If you want to restore the Google "I'm Lucky" search then perform this simple steps:
1. Type <STRONG>about:config</STRONG> in Firefox location bar and press <EM>Enter</EM>
2. Type keyword in Filter textbox and you will see only the preference <STRONG>keyword.URL</STRONG>.
3. Double-click on <STRONG>keyword.URL</STRONG> and change the value to: <STRONG>http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=</STRONG></p> <P>That's all it takes to restore default keyword search functionality in Google.</p> <P>Note: You can use this to change to any search engine for keyword search.</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/81CEAB7F-649B-4505-BDE0-C0CEE47FAA6D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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