''Don't want Google selected as the first search engine.'' '''You can place any search engine you want at the top choice''' for the search bar, click on the search engine favicon at the left of the search bar and choose another engine. If you want to '''change the order of the search engines''' in your choices, click on the search engine favicon at the left of the search bar, scroll down to the bottom and choose "Manage Search Engines". Select a search engine and drag it to the top or wherever you would like to reposition it, you can use use the "Move Up" or "Move Down" buttons on the the right to move the selected engine up or down. When finished click on "Ok". '''Problems:''' (if what you change it to does not stick around for next session:<br> * Deleting or renaming a corrupted '''localstore.rdf''' file in your profile:<br>only downside is re-customizing toolbars View>toolbars>customize (take a picture of your toolbars first). May fix toolbar problems including some search engine problems. It will not not remove or reorder search engines. *:http://kb.mozillazine.org/Search_engines_disappear_from_search_bar *:http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf * '''Unable to search or add new engines''':<br>Deleting just search.json no apparent differences, may fix problem.<br>Deleting both search.sqlite and search.json -- most likely to fix problem -- all search engines available but will be in alphabetical order, which you can manually modify.<br>Your actual search engines are in your "searchplugins" profile folder and remain untouched. *:[http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1944323 Unable to store search engine keywords] *:'''http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_search_or_add_new_engines''' *:http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox ---- '''Opening your profile folder''' :type '''about:support''' into the location bar, then click on "Open Containing Folder". '''More information on search usage ''' *[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/840504 Q840504] - Search Results into Tabs *[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/846749 Q846749] - Using any of the search engines using a keyword on the Location Bar * [http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/search.htm Search and Substitution Shortcuts especially for Firefox users] '''More information on keyword.URL for default searching''' from the location bar *[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries About:config entries - MozillaZine Knowledge Base] *[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config About:config - MozillaZine Knowledge Base] *[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL Keyword.URL - MozillaZine Knowledge Base] *[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search Location Bar search - MozillaZine Knowledge Base]

If you are talking about the default homepage in Firefox, set a different homepage. <br /> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page