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Although the home page of Mozilla Firefox uses the Google search engine, every time I enter something on the address bar, I get search results from Yahoo instead of the expected Google.

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On the address bar, when I enter something, I would get search results from Yahoo instead of Google. I don't know how to change it as the Options under the Tools tab do not seem to have anything that changes the search engine for the address bar.

On the address bar, when I enter something, I would get search results from Yahoo instead of Google. I don't know how to change it as the Options under the Tools tab do not seem to have anything that changes the search engine for the address bar.

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There is a hidden preference that you can change to make it use Google's browse by name search that was used in Firefox 3.6

  1. Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
  2. Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
  3. Locate the preference keyword.URL, double-click on it and change its value to the link shown below

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

If after changing the preference it is still using Yahoo, there will be an add-on that is causing this. Check for any Yahoo add-ons and if not required uninstall them. If you have the freeze.com net assistant add-on, that can also cause searches to go to Yahoo, uninstall that add-on - https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Uninstalling+add-ons

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There is a hidden preference that you can change to make it use Google's browse by name search that was used in Firefox 3.6

  1. Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
  2. Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
  3. Locate the preference keyword.URL, double-click on it and change its value to the link shown below

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

If after changing the preference it is still using Yahoo, there will be an add-on that is causing this. Check for any Yahoo add-ons and if not required uninstall them. If you have the freeze.com net assistant add-on, that can also cause searches to go to Yahoo, uninstall that add-on - https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Uninstalling+add-ons

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It works! Thank you very much.

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You're welcome

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It didnt work. HELP

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