How do I change the address bar search provider in Mozilla Nightly (Metro)?
Forgive me if this is covered elsewhere or posted in the wrong place. I have had a good look but can't find a better place.
Running Nightly 26.0a1 on Win 8. I have google uk as my address bar search engine in Nightly (Desktop) but I can't seem to find a place to change the setting in metro. The default is Bing.
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Starting with Firefox 23 the keyword.URL pref is no longer supported and it is no longer possible to specify the search engine for the location bar that way.
The search engine that is used on the location bar and on the about:home page is the search engine that is selected in the search Bar on the Navigation Toolbar.
You can install the Keyword Search extension to specify with search engine to use for the location bar and which search engine to use for the about:home page via the Options/Preferences windows of this extension, accessible via the about:addons page.
- Keyword Search: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keyword-search/
To change your home page:
1. Go to the firefox menu. 2. If you don't have the Firefox menu, just go to options. 3. Go to the general tab. 4. There will be options to change your home page.
To change your new tab:
1. Type in "about:config" in the address bar. 2. If a warning comes up, accept it. 3. In that address bar type in "browser.newtab.url." 4. It will show up in the list at the bottom. 5. Doulbe cick it. 6. A box will come up. 7. Type in the address you want to show up in your new tabs.
Hi Guys, thank you for your answers. Provided I've understood them correctly, I'm not sure that either quite suits the bill. Just to clarify I am using Nightly in Metro mode rather than Firefox. So, again, maybe my post is in the wrong place. Maybe there's a better place to post it.
Cor-el: Your advice is good but it seems Nightly in metro doesn't support add-ons. I got Nightly (in desktop mode) to search using Google in the location bar as you say by changing the search bar default. But in Metro there's no search bar to change a default for.
Firefoxhelper123: Again, like where you're going but I think you're aiming for me to have google as the default page for each new tab? But what I really want is to search google directly from the location bar to save opening and closing tabs when I'm done on the previous page.
It's no big deal if Nightly isn't quite there yet. It's just I like the way it looks in metro but also like my old search settings.
To simply use www.google.com;
Type 'about:config' (no quotes) in the location bar.
Change the 'browser.search.defaultenginename' value from 'chrome://browser/locale/region.properties' to 'Google'
For a more localised/other search engine;
Get the searchplugin by downloading (mycroftproject.com - these install in metro) or make your own (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox)
Open the desired searchplugin xml in Notepad from your profile (eg C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\MetroFirefox\Profiles\<profilename>\searchplugins\<searchengine>.xml
Copy the data from the ShortName field
Type 'about:config' (no quotes) in the location bar.
Change the 'browser.search.defaultenginename' value from 'chrome://browser/locale/region.properties' to the ShortName field data
Good Luck
Novain'i Ferric.AU t@
Starting with Firefox 28, which will be released to the Aurora channel today, you can use the "Search" item in the "Settings" charm to change your default search engine.
Details: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941292