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when i hit search on the search bar on the fitre fox start page it whent to bing instead of google.

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When i type in something on the search bar and hit search it goes to bing instead of google. How do you set it to google

When i type in something on the search bar and hit search it goes to bing instead of google. How do you set it to google

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Is that the search bar on the about:home page?

You can try to reset the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone pref to the default on the about:config page and close and restart Firefox.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

  • Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
  • Preferences that have been modified show as bold (user set).
  • Preferences can be reset to the default via the right-click context menu if they are user set
  • Preferences can be changed via the right-click context menu: Modify (String or Integer) or Toggle (Boolean)
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Is that the search bar on the about:home page?

You can try to reset the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone pref to the default on the about:config page and close and restart Firefox.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

  • Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
  • Preferences that have been modified show as bold (user set).
  • Preferences can be reset to the default via the right-click context menu if they are user set
  • Preferences can be changed via the right-click context menu: Modify (String or Integer) or Toggle (Boolean)
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Thanks! Your reply did the trick! Now it when I hit the search button it sends me to google instead of bing.

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This did not do anything at all to help me

Modified by Leoblaze78