Change Firefox location bar search engine

Question

I have Firefox 3.5, and for some reason Firefox location bar is using Yahoo as the search engine. I couldn't find a setting in the options to change this.

How can I change it back to Google?

Answer 1

I found the answer after some searching. Here's how:

• Type about:config in the location bar and press Enter

• Type keyword.URL in filter

• Change the keyword.URL value to:

  http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=