Tired of having Google as the default search engine in Firefox? Maybe it is another search engine’s turn to be on top?! If you feel the urge to dethrone Google as the default search engine for your Firefox search box – this is how you can get it done:
In your address bar, type in: “about:config”
Inside of the filter search box, type in:
browser.search.defaultenginename
Double click that entry (or right click and choose “Modify”) and then type in the name of the search engine you wish to have as the default search engine. It must be one that you already have installed and also make sure you type in the name correctly.
Now if you type in “Yahoo”, restart Firefox and when your browser comes back up you will see the red Yahoo “Y” and Yahoo as your default search engine.
Always wondered if you could do this. Now all you need to figure out is a better search engine than Google. ;)
Why bother to use about:config? What’s wrong with changing it directly by clicking the searchbar icon and select a prefer search engine?
Try clusty as an alternative search engine
hi i have a question ,
how can we set a search engine as default at its installation time dynamically