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Search results not getting directly through google from address bar?

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when searching from address bar, search is getting referred to mywebsearch bar search engine and then to google. It's not directly going for google. I have uninstalled all the traces of mywebsearch bar by using "exterminate", registry cleaners etc. Please help me how to direct my search directly to google. Thank you

when searching from address bar, search is getting referred to mywebsearch bar search engine and then to google. It's not directly going for google. I have uninstalled all the traces of mywebsearch bar by using "exterminate", registry cleaners etc. Please help me how to direct my search directly to google. Thank you

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You can reset the pref keyword.URL to the default value or another value.

http://search.mywebsearch.com/mywebsearch/GGmain.jhtml?id=ZRxdm510YYIN&ptb=9TMSHkVOn_NpdLSGQGHC4A&psa=&ind=2010101011&pt…

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.

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You can reset the pref keyword.URL to the default value or another value.

http://search.mywebsearch.com/mywebsearch/GGmain.jhtml?id=ZRxdm510YYIN&ptb=9TMSHkVOn_NpdLSGQGHC4A&psa=&ind=2010101011&pt…

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.

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Thanks buddy!!!!!!!!!!


It helped me.

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You're welcome

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follow these steps and ur problem will b solved: 1)type about:config in the address bar 2)type mywebsearch in the filter window 3)u will see 3 entries with mywebsearch.com in the last coloumn. right click on each one and choose reset. 4)restart mozilla. AND DONE :)