How To Changing Firefox 3.5 Default Search Engine

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Mida



Do you want to change Firefox 3.5 default search engine For some reasons you may want to  set Firefox default search to  “Microsoft’s Bing” search engine, or any other engine, so when you need to search for something using you favorite search engine you can just type it it Firefox address bard and hit enter and then Firefox will go to the search result page.

  • Type in  Firefox address bar  : “about:config”
  • In the Filter bar type in browser.search
  • Now located the following strings and change it to the search engine you want to use

 

browser.search.defaultenginename : Google
browser.search.defaulturl : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=
keyword.URL : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=

Now every time you want to search for something just type it in Firefox address bar and hit enter and fore fox will automatically go to Google search page or any other search engine you have changed to before.

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