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Keyword Search Not Functioning Correctly

jcbmv11
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In firefox 3, Keyword search does exactly as explained in the link below. However, when I downloaded Firefox 4, keyword search does not work as it did in Firefox 3. When I type "Mozilla foundation" (or any improper URL) in firefox 4 and hit enter, it simply does a google search. I have tried everything to fix this issue. I tried resetting the "Keyword.enabled" setting with no success. When I disable keyword search, then Domain guessing steps in and does its job.

Heres an example: In firefox 3, if I type "yah" into the navigation bar, it brings me straight to http://www.yahoo.com/. This is how I would expect keyword search to work.

In Firefox 4, If I type "yah" into the navigation bar, it brings me to a google search of yah.

In firefox 3, Keyword search does exactly as explained in the link below. However, when I downloaded Firefox 4, keyword search does not work as it did in Firefox 3. When I type "Mozilla foundation" (or any improper URL) in firefox 4 and hit enter, it simply does a google search. I have tried everything to fix this issue. I tried resetting the "Keyword.enabled" setting with no success. When I disable keyword search, then Domain guessing steps in and does its job. Heres an example: In firefox 3, if I type "yah" into the navigation bar, it brings me straight to http://www.yahoo.com/. This is how I would expect keyword search to work. In Firefox 4, If I type "yah" into the navigation bar, it brings me to a google search of yah.

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cor-el
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You can modify the pref keyword.URL on the about:config page to use a Google Lucky search.

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.

jcbmv11
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your reply does not help me at all. Your links don't explain what to do. Tell me what I should do, step by step.

cor-el
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You can look at one of these extensions:

jcbmv11
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I figured out what to do, and I am only posting a reply for people with similar problem.

1. Go to "about:config" 2. Search for Keyword.URL 3. Double click it, and enter the following string value: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= 4. Hit ok, restart firefox, and it works!

Here's what happened. The guy above gave me links that told me how to modify the keyword.url setting. However, none of the links gave the value I needed to enter to make it work. So, I had an epiphany! I opened firefox 3, I copied the default value for keyword.url. Then I posted that value into firefox 4's keyword.url. It seems kind of silly that mozilla would change the default for that setting, but whatever. I then tried to figure out how I could import all of the Firefox 3 values into the firefox 4 values, but I quickly gave up haha.

annabellavilla
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jcbmv11: AWESOME! I've been struggling with this for weeks. Thank you for your clear detailed explanation of how to fix it!!!!!