how to make firefox 12 homepage search using google
I just updated to firefox 12, but in the home page of firefox(default homepage), it always search using yahoo search engine, how can i convert it to search using google search engine?
Chosen solution
by Matt_GHi ,
You should take a look at the Knowledge Base article Search bar - Easily choose your favorite search engine. Your default search might have been changed by a particular site. Sites like MSN, Yahoo, etc have been know to ask to become your homepage and change your search engine.
If the address bar search has been changed as well, you might want to take a look at Search the web from the Address Bar.
If that doesn't work you should look at the article How to fix preferences that won't save.
If you are specifically talking about the about:home page then follow these steps by the-edmeister:
Firefox button > Web Developer -> Scratchpad - copy and paste this script into Scratchpad > then hit Execute > Run
javascript:{localStorage["search-engine"]="{\"name\":\"Google\",\"searchUrl\":\"http://www.google.com/search?q=_searchTerms_&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\"}";void(0);}
Hopefully this helps!
Additional System Details
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
This started when...
I search for any thing
Installed Plug-ins
- RealJukebox Netscape Plugin
- RealNetworks(tm) RealPlayer Chrome Background Extension Plug-In
- RealPlayer(tm) HTML5VideoShim Plug-In
- RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
- 15.0.3.37
- Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.3
- Google Update
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_31 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- DivX Plus Web Player version 2.2.0.52
- Yahoo Application State Plugin version 1.0.0.7
- 5.0.61118.0
- DivX VOD Helper Plug-in
- BrowserPlus -- Improve your browser! -- http://browserplus.yahoo.com/
- NPWLPG
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
- np-mswmp
- LabVIEW 8.2 Netscape Plug-in for Win32
- Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
- DRM Netscape Network Object
- DRM Store Netscape Plugin
- Npdsplay dll
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
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Chosen Solution
Hi ,
You should take a look at the Knowledge Base article Search bar - Easily choose your favorite search engine. Your default search might have been changed by a particular site. Sites like MSN, Yahoo, etc have been know to ask to become your homepage and change your search engine.
If the address bar search has been changed as well, you might want to take a look at Search the web from the Address Bar.
If that doesn't work you should look at the article How to fix preferences that won't save.
If you are specifically talking about the about:home page then follow these steps by the-edmeister:
Firefox button > Web Developer -> Scratchpad - copy and paste this script into Scratchpad > then hit Execute > Run
javascript:{localStorage["search-engine"]="{\"name\":\"Google\",\"searchUrl\":\"http://www.google.com/search?q=_searchTerms_&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\"}";void(0);}
Hopefully this helps!
Question owner
Really great thanks, i appreciate your help :)