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Need to remove aol search. Son added AIM and I removed it but it changed my search setting. Looked up on line and I do not have a "keyword box" to perform fix as shown. Please help this has been driving me crazy for tooo long.

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Need to remove aol search. My son added AIM and I removed it but it changed my search setting. Looked up on line and I do not have a "keyword box" to perform fix as shown. I want to reset it back to Firefox original which opens a most likely page. Please help this has been driving me crazy for tooo long.

Need to remove aol search. My son added AIM and I removed it but it changed my search setting. Looked up on line and I do not have a "keyword box" to perform fix as shown. I want to reset it back to Firefox original which opens a most likely page. Please help this has been driving me crazy for tooo long.

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http://blogs.techworld.com/war-on-error/2011/01/aol-search-burrows-into-firefox/

Works on Firefox 4 Beta

go to about:config command and then reset keyword.URL to http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=