By default, if you type in a phrase that is not a web address into the address bar, Firefox sends the query to Google for a web search. You can change this so that it uses a different search engine if you prefer.
For Windows Live search:
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=
For a Yahoo search:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=
To go back to the default:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
keyword.URL
Change to any of the following above to use a different search engine.
You can also check out the Mozilla page for a complete list of configurations that you can change with descriptions at about:config wiki page. Any other about:config changes that you like? Post a comment!
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