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I want the Awesome Bar to act like a regular search bar!

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alisadm
alisadm
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Firefox 3.6.12 / Windows 7 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12

i just moved back to firefox after chrome took away the ability to manually manage my cookies. So I want the Awesome Bar to act the same way a search bar acts. When I put in a word or a name, I DON'T want it to automatically go to a URL. I want all my GOOGLE search results from which *I* will decide where I want to go. Right now, I'm using the Google search bar AND the location bar to show where I am since the google bar only shows the search.

Is there a way for the location bar to simply be a search bar??

Firefox 3.6.12 / Windows 7 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 i just moved back to firefox after chrome took away the ability to manually manage my cookies. So I want the Awesome Bar to act the same way a search bar acts. When I put in a word or a name, I DON'T want it to automatically go to a URL. I want all my GOOGLE search results from which *I* will decide where I want to go. Right now, I'm using the Google search bar AND the location bar to show where I am since the google bar only shows the search. Is there a way for the location bar to simply be a search bar??

Chosen solution

  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, this will make it go to a Google search results page.

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

For more details see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search

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TonyE
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Chosen Solution

  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, this will make it go to a Google search results page.

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

For more details see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search

alisadm
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Yup! That's it! The option that was there was the second one in the article:

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

I've been trying for three days to make that happen. Thank you!!!

Jambo_X
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I got this to work on my PC, but now it won't do it on my FF4 for Mobile. It goes to a page called "Search Assist" saying I didn't type in a valid browser address. I understand that they want me to press the magnifying glass drop down, and then select a search engine, but this is a waste. I just want to hit "Go" and get Google search results, just like my phone used to do.