Flock : Change default search engine to Google
Posted by: arun on: January 30, 2006
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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12 Responses to "Flock : Change default search engine to Google"
[...] 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 [...]
August 13, 2006 at 3:36 am
thanks for this. flock’s use of yahoo as default search engine was really starting to bugging me.
June 15, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Something so simple, yet so frustrating, so easily fixed. The way it should be. Thanks bunches!
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July 5, 2008 at 7:38 pm
In the Flock2 beta browser.search.defaulturl is now called keyword.URL
October 8, 2008 at 1:50 am
thanks for the tip. not being able to change this would have made me not use this browser
January 18, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Hey thanks arun. and this was the first link in google when i searched for this topic. good work bro
April 29, 2009 at 8:21 am
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.
July 13, 2006 at 2:25 am
Thanks! That fixed a minor annoyance on an otherwise cool browser.