OT - BING HAS TAKEN OVER MY SEARCH ENGINE

Joe Lewis Wilkins pepetoo at cox.net
Wed Mar 14 14:21:22 EDT 2012


Thanks everyone. I'll need luck. (smile) I don't usually dig into any of these files.

Joe Wilkins

On Mar 14, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Warren Samples wrote:

> On 03/14/2012 12:25 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
>> On 03/14/2012 11:42 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>>> continued frustration. Result was "website cannot be found". (sigh!)
>>> Thanks anyway! Just not my day. My vision is poorer than usual today.
>>> Joe Wilkins
>> 
>> 
>> That seems odd. You can edit the prefs files directly in a text editor.
>> It's not difficult or scary. You need to know where your profile is and
>> which one if there are more than one. This may help:
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder
>> http://gemal.dk/mozilla/profile.html
>> 
>> 
>> MAKE SURE FIREFOX IS NOT OPEN WHILE YOU DO EDIT THE FILE!!!
>> 
>> Once you've found your profile directory, open the file called prefs.js
>> in your favorite text editor. Search for
>> "browser.search.defaultenginename". You want that line to look this way:
>> 
>> user_pref("browser.search.defaultenginename", "Google");
>> 
>> You may also have a file called user.js Check that to make sure it
>> doesn't have anything that conflicts with this.
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file
>> 
>> Good luck :)
>> 
>> Warren
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> I should have tried this before I wrote. There are two lines that need to be checked:
> 
> user_pref("browser.search.defaultenginename", "Google");
> user_pref("browser.search.defaulturl", "http://www.google.com/");
> 
> I'm not sure why, but it's not working here as simply as it should. Set this in prefs.js and for good measure, also create a file "user.js" in this same folder and add these lines to it:
> 
> # my search engine preference
> user_pref("browser.search.defaultenginename", "Google");
> user_pref("browser.search.defaulturl", "http://www.google.com/");
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Warren





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