How to Change Your FireFox Location Bar Search Engine

Thanks for this! Installed a product that changed my loc bar search engine to Yahoo, which is quite annoying for a developer like me.

THanks soooooooooooooooo much! yours was the first and best i came across….fixed a irritating issue. i didnt even know exactly why it had changed, but it had and now i can be quickly taken to where i want. thanks so much!

Great!!!

Awesome!!! Works great. Simple and clean.

Thank you sooo much for this We need more people like you in this world

Thank you!

Thank you, you’re a genius.

You are currently my hero for telling me how to fix this!

Some malware called “MS BING” was ruining my awesome surfing experience!

Thank you!!! I got stuck with AOL search and it is awful. I am so glad to have google’s “I’m feeling lucky” search back!

Thank you! Even though I had uninstalled a toolbar, my address bar searches were still being routed through a very odd site. This is phenomenally better.

Thank you..that was very helpful.

Thank you!
im tired of those programs that change default search.

Thanks for this Tip - it had us stumped until now!

i love you. soooo much.

Thank you so much! This was driving me mad!

Thank you

Thanks for the post. An ask toolbar installation had changed my location search from google to ask. I have been grappling to get it back to google. Thank you.

now thats what i call clean instruction thnx alot i had chrome and i really like it but i had to switch to firefox since the internet speed was veyr low and i was sad i didnt have google thingy thnx

Thanks so much! I had an Ask.com website in the keyword.URL and google is just so much better.

Thanks again!

I actually was in search of how to do this because I accidentally a full install on AIM rather than a custom install. It robbed my Firefox off its innocence, like completely.

It changed my homepage, it installed a toolbar, it changed the default search engine (in the upper right corner) to AIM, and changed the search engine my address bar normal uses.

I had no clue to change it back, but this helped very much. Almost 5 years since this was posted and its still extremely valuable.

Thanks

It’s unbelievable that nearly five years after you made this post people are still having to make use of it because Yahoo is still carrying out these hit-and-runs.

My crime was to install a Firefox upgrade. Next thing I know, I have a Yahoo toolbar, which I got rid of. A few minutes later I type search terms into the address bar, only to taken to a Yahoo page.

Thank you so much for taking the time to direct us how to get rid of the Yahoo disease. It’s a despicable style that they adopt, and Mozilla should be ashamed for packaging it with their upgrades.

I have done everything you asked but when I turn laptop off and come back its back to yahoo.. its driving me nuts!! its only been since I installed 3.6 on mozilla :o( I am using Vista can anyone help me please..I Loathe YAHOO

Hi, I tried this and nothing happens. Help! I want to get rid of Yahoo!

Thank you very much! You’ve stopped me going insane.
Take that MyWebSearch!

Another thank you. Firefox has ALWAYS used the google search for me, but after I installed the latest updated version, I started getting the annoying yahoo search. Problem solved.

great, thanks! finally got rid of stupid winamp search!

Thank you thank you thank you!

I’ve been searching everywhere for a way to change the default search engine for the search bar and you’ve provided it!

I absolutely love you sooooooo much right

I couldn’t get rid of the spam Yahoo search. Thanks so much for the information.
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instead of typing that im feeling lucky search just type “https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=” which is the default value there u can also right click and select reset

Thank you! I was forever having issues with this due to a installed PDF creator that was just buggy to begin with. It further frustrated me that it was gone. I’m so glad for it to be back again.