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Flock : Change default search engine to Google

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The default search engine(the search engine which pops up when you select some words in a webpage and invoke search from the context menu) in Flock 0.4.10 is Yahoo!. Here is the procedure to change the default search engine for the ardent fans of google ;-)

Type in about:config in the address bar.
Then type in search in the Filter bar..
Modify the browser.search.defaultenginename property to Google. and then modify the browser.search.defaulturl to “http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=” without quotes.

HTS !!

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Written by arun

January 30, 2006 at 10:35 pm

Posted in Flock, Hacks, Internet, Software

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  1. [...] Changing the default search engine to Google I have already dealt with this topic in an earlier post However i will mention the hack again just for the sake of completeness So here is how to proceed. Double click the browser.search.defaultenginename  and set it to Google. Similarly set the browser.search.defaulturl to http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q= Thats it..too easy [...]

  2. Thanks! That fixed a minor annoyance on an otherwise cool browser.

    Lance Fisher

    July 13, 2006 at 2:25 am

  3. I am glad it helped :)
    Happy Flocking !!

    arun

    July 13, 2006 at 5:53 pm

  4. Hi, thanks for the tip !

    kOoLiNuS

    August 6, 2006 at 11:24 am

  5. thanks for this. flock’s use of yahoo as default search engine was really starting to bugging me.

    thomas

    August 13, 2006 at 3:36 am

  6. Thank You

    Alex

    April 25, 2007 at 4:55 pm

  7. Something so simple, yet so frustrating, so easily fixed. The way it should be. Thanks bunches!

    Orin

    June 15, 2007 at 9:45 pm

  8. [...] de ler essa dica pro flock 0.4.10 e fuçar um pouco nas configurações da versão 1.0 consegui [...]

  9. In the Flock2 beta browser.search.defaulturl is now called keyword.URL

    radian

    July 5, 2008 at 7:38 pm

  10. thanks for the tip. not being able to change this would have made me not use this browser

    dan

    October 8, 2008 at 1:50 am

  11. Hey thanks arun. and this was the first link in google when i searched for this topic. good work bro

    sarath

    January 18, 2009 at 11:07 pm

  12. I had to change keyword.URL…By the way, on Web Search tool (beside URL), all search engines are giving results from Germany like google.de and http://de.search.yahoo.com/. How do I change this to google.com and yahoo.com?

    thanks.

    bryantboy

    April 29, 2009 at 8:21 am


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