Dougy Mak’s Blog

Today, I was trying to declutter my Firefox. Since you can search using your address bar (the bar where you type the web address), then I decided to take away the dedicated search bar on the right of the address bar. However, when I typed in a keyword and hit enter, it would use Yahoo has the default search engine, but I wanted Google instead. With no further delays, here’s how to change your Firefox’s address bar’s default search.

1. Type about:config in Firefox location bar and press Enter
2. Type keyword.URL in Filter textbox to find keyword.URL.
3. Double-click on keyword.URL and change the value to: http://www.google.com/search?q=

Also, you can change it to Google’s I’m Feeling Lucky search- just use: http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=

That’s it! Now give it a test drive!