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how to change default search engine

Asked by GREG T.

been looking for how to change googles to yahoo in firefox for default search engine.

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#1

how do i change googles to yahoo for default search engine ? and home the homepage to match .

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#2

1) Do you mean the "Search" at the top right of Firefox? Just change it to what you want - Yahoo! It should stay.If Yahoo! isn't there, when you pull down the Menu it has "Manage Search Engines" which has "Get More Search Engines".

2) How do you change HomePage? Firefox>Edit>Preferences>General>HomePage (It's slightly different from WIndows)

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#3

no ! i mean go in about:config and set yahoo as default . it is going to be that way in ubuntu 10.04 so i want to find out it i am going to like it or not .

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#4

 I DID IT ! ! i been looking all day for help to do this i found this page that has a correction toward the bottom of the page but it works,,,

http://www.liewcf.com/archives/2005/01/modify-firefox-address-bar-search/

 the page also listed how to change back to googles ....