How To Change The Default Search Provider in Firefox

How to change the default search provider in Firefox

Step1: Load Firefox

Step2: Type “about: config” in the address bar and press enter

Step 3:  Ignore the warning and click “I will be careful, I promise!”

Step 4: In the filter text box at the top of screen type “keyword.url”

Step 5: Double Click on the keyword.URL. It will open a pop up window asking you to “Enter String Value” . You can also right click on keyword.URL and click Modify

Step 6: To display search results, you need to replace the String with one of the following strings as per your favourite search engine.

Google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=

Google Search (I’m feeling Lucky): http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=

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

Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=

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

AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=

AOL Search: http://search.aol.com/aol/search?s_it=searchbox.webhome&q=

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?fulltext=Search&search=

Step 7: Click OK when you are done.

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