Change Default Search Engine in Chrome and Firefox

Tuesday 13 March 2012 0 comments
How to Change Default Search Engine in Chrome and FirefoxAs most Softwares change our default Search Engine. However, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have the option to fix this and revert back to different Search Engine

How To Change Default Search Engine In Google Chrome:- 


We all mainly open a new tab to search the term we want to search on our default Search Engine set on our browser (which is mainly Google). just follow the below steps to change default Search Engine in Google Chrome.

  • Make a Right Click on your Address Bar and Select the Option Edit Search Engines.

How to Change Default Search Engine in Chrome and Firefox

  • Select the Search Engines from the list which is displayed in front of you and Click Make Default

How to Change Default Search Engine in Chrome and Firefox

And the Search Engine you Selected will be your default Search Engine. Now you can open any new tab and type in the address bar, the term you would like to Search.

How To Change Default Search Engine In Mozilla Firefox:-

  • Firstly Open your Mozilla Firefox browser.

  • Then type about:config in the address Bar of your Firefox Browser.


  • It will give you a warning. Just ignore it and click on I will be careful, I promise.


How to Change Default Search Engine in Chrome and Firefox

  • Now Type Keyword.URL in the Filter Box. The result will appear. Right click on Keyword.URL and click on Modify button.

How to Change Default Search Engine in Chrome and Firefox

  • Here, it will ask you to Input the String Value i.e. the search Engine you would like to set as default.
For Google: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=

For Bing: http://www.bing.com/results.aspx?q=
For Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p= 

Enter 
any of the URL from the above and Click on OK. Here I would use Google as I use it more frequently.

How to Change Default Search Engine in Chrome and Firefox

So, that is it. Now you need to restart Firefox browser and you will notice that you are welcomed with Google an it's now your default Search Engine. 
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