Please do the following.

1. In the location bar where you normally type in a web address, type about:config and hit Enter.
   
   
2. If you see a window which says "This might void your warranty!", click the button which says "I'll be careful, I promise" so you can continue with the next step.
   
   
3. In the filter at the top, type: keyword.URL
   
   
4. Double click it and remove hxxp://www.bing.com/search?q= and replace it with http://www.google.com/search?q= and then click OK.
   
   
5. Close the tab

The URL to add in "keyword.URL" becomes a link in this post, so right click it and choose "Copy Link Location" to copy it to the Windows clipboard. Then hit CTRL+V to paste it. Saves you having to type the whole thing.

To reset your home page, do the following.

• Go to the site you want to set as your homepage.
  
  
• Click the Firefox button, go to Options | Options | General.
  
  
• Make sure it says "Show My Homepage" in the first dropdown menu.
  
  
• Click the button called "Use Current Pages" to set the homepage to the one you have on the screen.
  

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Thanks.

Bing replaces Firefox (not Google, Yahoo or other) search?

Your answer may be something close to what I need but I’m not sure and don’t completely understand if it will solve this specific problem:

When I do a search in the FIREFOX search box, it automatically switches to Bing (replaces Firefox search). I do not belong to the Church of Microsoft and do not want to see Bing or MSN on my computers for any reason…………..ever! How do I completely remove Bing (all references to it of any kind) from Firefox?

I did this and it worked and I’m still confused. Before I downloaded Firefox, I was using Google Chrome. There is much I don’t like about Google so I decided to try a different browser (hopefully Firefox). The only thing different now is that I’m using Google in Firefox instead of Chrome. Essentially, nothing has changed. Is Firefox not really a browser? If it is a browser, I want to browse with it and not Google. Perhaps I completely misunderstand what a browser is. Please advise. Also: I have clicked on “Get Email Updates”, have posted several questions and received no email notifications. Is there something else I’m supposed to do to receive email notifications?