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i want to change firefox 4.0.1 to use google as the default search engine on the navigation toolbar, not ask. please help!!

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when i type in something i want to search for in the navigation toolbar, firefox 4.0.1 uses ask. i want to change that to google. how do i do that?

when i type in something i want to search for in the navigation toolbar, firefox 4.0.1 uses ask. i want to change that to google. how do i do that?

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cor-el
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You can modify the pref keyword.URL on the about:config page to use Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" or Google's "Browse By Name".

If that change doesn't work then it might be caused by an extension.