Change Firefox Location Bar Search Engine

Google Search

I have been using firefox for quite a long time now and have got used to its location bar search action. Recently, I did a few plugin installs and uninstalls and somehow managed to mess up the configuration such that the location bar search failed. It would display a neterror message and an error page instead of the google search or the I’m Feeling Lucky result. Upon searching for some time, I came across the fix.

Its pretty simple. All you have to do is this -

• Type about:config in the location bar and press enter.
• In the filter text box shown, type keyword. Alternately, you could try searching for the keyword.url option.
• Modify the value of this key to this – http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=

That’s it ! We are done. Once again the search feature from location bar works. Also you could have any other search engine instead of google by appropriately modifying the value of the key.

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