It's not intuitive because Google pays FF handsomely for this privilege, but apparently this works:
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. Cheers, Zubin. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Saifi Khan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all: > > Does anybody know, how to change the default search engine in > Firefox ? > > Does one need to have the search add-on installed as well ? > > All suggestions appreciated. > > thanks > Saif. >
