How do I change default search engine in address bar?
I know in previous incarnations of Foxfire I could use about:config and change Keyworld.url to change my default search engine. I recently reset my Foxfire because I've been having issues with the Origin website and.. now it's defaulted back to Google. I do not want to use google. How do I change this? I do not want a search bar, I do not wanna change things in a search bar. I just want the address bar to work the way I've always had it work for me before. Can ANYBODY help me?
Chosen solution
You can switch the search engine from the search bar that is automatically in Firefox by clicking the downward pointing arrow and switching it to your choice.
If you want a custom search engine, you can navigate to that website, click the arrow and click "Add <custom engine>. Example below:
If you don't want the search bar, you can "hide" it from view by clicking the 3-bar menu button, going to "Customize" at the bottom, then dragging the search bar back into the Additional Tools & Features box.
Once you change the search engine in the search bar, you can hide the search bar and search using the address bar with the provider you chose in the Search Bar.
Read this answer in context 👍 12All Replies (5)
Chosen Solution
You can switch the search engine from the search bar that is automatically in Firefox by clicking the downward pointing arrow and switching it to your choice.
If you want a custom search engine, you can navigate to that website, click the arrow and click "Add <custom engine>. Example below:
If you don't want the search bar, you can "hide" it from view by clicking the 3-bar menu button, going to "Customize" at the bottom, then dragging the search bar back into the Additional Tools & Features box.
Once you change the search engine in the search bar, you can hide the search bar and search using the address bar with the provider you chose in the Search Bar.
Modified by Moses
That does not help me at all. I do not want the Search Bar. I don't wanna change the default on the search bar. Why would ANYONE want a search bar when the address bar does the searching for you?
I want to change the default on the ADDRESS bar. The main bar and only bar I have. The one that if you type in anything, it automatically searches Google and there seems to be no way to change it. You could change it before by going to about:config and changing Keyword.url, but Foxfire removed that. Now.. I want to take the Address bar off it's default of Google and switch it to something else.
Once again, I want NOTHING to do with the Search Bar. I don't want it, don't want to change what it searches, nothing. I never use it and never have. I want to change the ADDRESS bar's default search.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. Once you change the search engine in the search bar, you can hide the search bar and search using the address bar with the provider you chose in the Search Bar.
THANK YOU. Why does nothing say that? Every thing I've read tells me to change the search bar, but it doesn't tell me that also changes the address bar. FINALLY. Thank you
Note that you can also move the search bar to the "3-bar" Firefox menu button drop-down list if you do not want to have it on the Navigation Toolbar. You can even use the Ctrl+K keyboard shortcut to open the 3-bar menu with the search field focused.