How To Change Default Search Engine In Firefox?
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Assuming that you want to change your default search engine to Bing here are the steps to do it:
Make sure you do this carefully.
1. Open about:config in Firefox
2. Search for keyword.url from the filter box.
3. Double click on this entry. It will open a dialog where you can edit the ‘keyword.url’ string.
4. Change this string to http://www.bing.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
In case you want to change the default search engine to some other search engine like Google, Yahoo, Ask, Conduit, Altavista etc. then simply replace searchengine with the name of the search engine in the string:
“http://www.searchengine.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=“
For example in case of Google, the url will be:
“http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=“