Change Firefox address bar search engine

January 11th, 2010 | Tags: ,

Follow these steps to change the search engine used by Firefox 3 address bar:

  1. Enter about:config in the browser’s address bar and accept a warning dialog if it appears.
  2. In the filter box type in keyword.URL
  3. Double click the entry and paste in your prefered search engine URL (e.g. http://www.bing.com/search?q=)

You can always revert back to the default Google search by right-clicking the entry and selecting the Reset menu option.

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