How can I set search engine separately between Location Bar and Search Box?
I recentlly updated Firefox20 to Aurora 24a2 and noticed that the search engine I chose in search box was also set as default search engine, which is used when I search from address bar. I've looked in about:config, and tried to change browser.search.selectedEngine to the one different from browser.search.defaultenginename. Though, it did not work because as soon as the value was changed, the another value got synced to it automatically. As far as I recall, this was possible before update. Something has changed between 20 and 24? or/and is there any way to do this? Sorry for my bad English.
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Yes, that is a change in Firefox 23 and later.
The keyword.URL pref is no longer supported and the location bar uses the default search engine.
You can consider to use a (one letter) keyword search for searching via the location bar.
You can set a keyword for an installed search engine via Manage Search Engines (click the search engines icon on the search bar).
- bug 738818 - consolidate Firefox search preferences
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Thank you for the reply.
I'm sorry to know it removed.
It was a convenient feature for me, as I use google in English and my local language.
The workaround you wrote is decent, but contains a little bit problem for me.
I often use Paste And Search from context menu
In such case, typing keyword in advance requires one additional step.
Anyway, I'm somewhat feeling better to know what caused this.
Thanks again for your good and just answer.
Edit:This post is the reply for cor-el
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changing the functionality of the address bar, in Firefox 23, is not necessarily a creative and functional change........
it looks more like a step backwards because it removed useful functionality from Firefox and added productivity obstacles
the option of having two preset "search boxes" (the Address Bar itself and the Search box to the right of the Address Bar) was allowing the user to just type and search for example: Google on the left (Address Bar), Wikipedia on the right (Search box)
now one should add an extra step: to click with the mouse on the pull-down menu and switch between search sites, from Google to Bing to Yahoo to Wikipedia etc. (because usually users search using more than one engines)
after all, if the Address Bar and the Search box can only use the same search engine, why do we need a separate Search box ?
SUGGESTED SOLUTION: add configuration options to Firefox to allow multiple search boxes as follows: the leftmost box would be the Address_Bar+Search (add option to change search engine in the Address Bar independently from the Search box) then, the user should have the option to add one or two or more (or none) Search boxes to the right of the Address Bar, with each of those Search boxes able to search using a different search engine (selected through pull down menus)
I fully agree with your thought.
The Solution you've shown seems the better way to me than current implementation too.
Though I suspect that there's not so many people who use this function,
for me it is the one I use often and need.
I know little about development, but I've recently been feeling too many functions, some good and some useless, are removed.
Using tag doesn't be the just alternative on some occasion.
Hoping to see FF with this removed function reverted or above solution implemented in near future.