When Firefox opens upon starting my computer, Google is the search engine shown on the page. I DON'T want Google to be the search engine. How can I change the main screen so that Google is not there? Thanks. Jeff
I do not want to use Google. Yet, when I open Mozilla Firefox, Google's search engine search box is there. I DON'T want this . How do I use Firefox without Google?
Thanks. Jeff2011
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Don't want Google selected as the first search engine.
You can place any search engine you want at the top choice for the search bar, click on the search engine favicon at the left of the search bar and choose another engine.
If you want to change the order of the search engines in your choices, click on the search engine favicon at the left of the search bar, scroll down to the bottom and choose "Manage Search Engines". Select a search engine and drag it to the top or wherever you would like to reposition it, you can use use the "Move Up" or "Move Down" buttons on the the right to move the selected engine up or down.
When finished click on "Ok".
Problems: (if what you change it to does not stick around for next session:
- Deleting or renaming a corrupted localstore.rdf file in your profile:
only downside is re-customizing toolbars View>toolbars>customize (take a picture of your toolbars first). May fix toolbar problems including some search engine problems. It will not not remove or reorder search engines. - Unable to search or add new engines:
Deleting just search.json no apparent differences, may fix problem.
Deleting both search.sqlite and search.json -- most likely to fix problem -- all search engines available but will be in alphabetical order, which you can manually modify.
Your actual search engines are in your "searchplugins" profile folder and remain untouched.
Opening your profile folder
- type about:support into the location bar, then click on "Open Containing Folder".
More information on search usage
- Q840504 - Search Results into Tabs
- Q846749 - Using any of the search engines using a keyword on the Location Bar
- Search and Substitution Shortcuts especially for Firefox users
More information on keyword.URL for default searching from the location bar
If you are talking about the default homepage in Firefox, set a different homepage.
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page