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Default Search Engine setting for Location Bar not being invoked

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charwing
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Have set default search engine for Location bar to Google but it doesn't work - always seems to use Yahoo (which I don't want). Have tried clearing history to make sure that no previous Yahoo searches get picked up (searching Bookmarks and History) but every time I type something in the Locator bar that implies a Search -- Yahoo comes up. Note that I my default Search Engine in the Search Bar is Google and it DOES work . I've gone so far as to remove Yahoo from the list of alternate search engines in that Bar too.

Have set default search engine for Location bar to Google but it doesn't work - always seems to use Yahoo (which I don't want). Have tried clearing history to make sure that no previous Yahoo searches get picked up (searching Bookmarks and History) but every time I type something in the Locator bar that implies a Search -- Yahoo comes up. Note that I my default Search Engine in the Search Bar is Google and it DOES work . I've gone so far as to remove Yahoo from the list of alternate search engines in that Bar too.

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risen
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I ran into this post when googling for the reason why I was getting this problem as well. It turns out that in my case McAfee has designated Yahoo as it's "safe search" engine and re-writes Yahoo as the default search engine to pop up when you type something into the URL bar.

I found this explantion on fixing it, but am clueless how to replace it with a google search string. ( http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/20/change-the-firefox-location-bar-search-engine/ )

Changing it to google btw makes McAfee pop up and say I have selected a non secure search option and whether I want to change it back.

risen
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=

Thats the google URL to input in the field to put it back to google as a default.

phalturam
phalturam
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Yahoo toolbar has perhaps taken over your browser. To change the default search engine for location bar,

Type in location bar - about:config Search using filter - keyword.URL Replace the yahoo address with - http://www.google.com/search?q=