Thanks everyone. I'll need luck. (smile) I don't usually dig into any of these files.
Joe Wilkins On Mar 14, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Warren Samples wrote: > On 03/14/2012 12:25 PM, Warren Samples wrote: >> On 03/14/2012 11:42 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: >>> continued frustration. Result was "website cannot be found". (sigh!) >>> Thanks anyway! Just not my day. My vision is poorer than usual today. >>> Joe Wilkins >> >> >> That seems odd. You can edit the prefs files directly in a text editor. >> It's not difficult or scary. You need to know where your profile is and >> which one if there are more than one. This may help: >> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder >> http://gemal.dk/mozilla/profile.html >> >> >> MAKE SURE FIREFOX IS NOT OPEN WHILE YOU DO EDIT THE FILE!!! >> >> Once you've found your profile directory, open the file called prefs.js >> in your favorite text editor. Search for >> "browser.search.defaultenginename". You want that line to look this way: >> >> user_pref("browser.search.defaultenginename", "Google"); >> >> You may also have a file called user.js Check that to make sure it >> doesn't have anything that conflicts with this. >> http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file >> >> Good luck :) >> >> Warren >> >> > > > I should have tried this before I wrote. There are two lines that need to be > checked: > > user_pref("browser.search.defaultenginename", "Google"); > user_pref("browser.search.defaulturl", "http://www.google.com/";); > > I'm not sure why, but it's not working here as simply as it should. Set this > in prefs.js and for good measure, also create a file "user.js" in this same > folder and add these lines to it: > > # my search engine preference > user_pref("browser.search.defaultenginename", "Google"); > user_pref("browser.search.defaulturl", "http://www.google.com/";); > > Good luck! > > Warren _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
