Firefox Address Bar Search

I used to have Firefox to use Google’s Browse by Name feature, but since I reinstalled my box I never got around to reconfiguring it. To do so yourself follow these instructions:

  1. Navigate to about:config in Firefox.
  2. Use the filter feature to find keyword.url.
  3. Modify the preference and replace the default value with http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

Thanks to the Ubuntu Blog for this!

Anyway after configuring it I found a bug #84242, how cool is that bug number?

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2 Responses to Firefox Address Bar Search

  1. neoeno says:

    Personally I prefer setting firefox to use http://yubnub.org/ as the default search engine.

  2. Chris says:

    Cool, might have to give that a try.

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