This string in about:config used to block sites"keyword.URL;http://www.bing.com/search?q -wikipedia -MSN -MSNBC -huffingtonpost -huffington -ehow -eHow"
"keyword.URL;http://www.bing.com/search?q -wikipedia -MSN -MSNBC -huffingtonpost -huffington -ehow -eHow -wikipedia -MSN -MSNBC -huffingtonpost -huffington " Used to block sites not wanted, no longer works even if I roll back to Firefox 22 and keyword hack does not do what I am looking for either. As I get enough junk returns from the internet these days it worked great to block the 20k these sites spam out. As it still works with IE I guess i am stuck not using Firefox
Modified by don544
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In Firefox 23 versions and later the keyword.URL pref is no longer supported and it is no longer possible to specify the search engine for the location bar via the keyword.URL pref.
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/
Hi Don, you also have the option to augment Firefox's search plugins with a custom plugin that has a query string with your preferred exclusions. However, using the extension cor-el mentioned probably is easiest.