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cannot clear searchqu programme!!!!!

#16 mansoorB

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Posted 21 September 2011 - 03:34 PM

hi there - sorry, took a meal break!

Well, problem half solved. Mozilla firefox opens perfecly now. However a search through the address/location bar still takes me to searchqu engine results despite having reset the filter of keyword:URL.

I don't know what the problem is but after a little diggin around I decided to change the value of keyword:URL to

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

This prevents re-direction to searchqu based results, but re-directs me to the website for the top result for google (usually wikipedia based). Obviously I'd wanted it to behave as before - just a list of results from Google.

Any further insights would be really appreciated!!

Thanks

#17 miekiemoes

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Posted 21 September 2011 - 03:38 PM

Hi,

See here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL#Replacing_Google_with_other_search_engines_for_location_bar_search
The default one for google appears to be http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=

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#18 mansoorB

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Posted 21 September 2011 - 04:20 PM

great. opens fine. address bar works as before. there is still some wretched thing called Web Search toolbar floating around. There are some regedit hotkey files to delete for it - but I went there and they simply don't exist!! Any advice?

#19 miekiemoes

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Posted 21 September 2011 - 04:55 PM

Hi,

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there is still some wretched thing called Web Search toolbar floating around

From your DDS log, I can see the following:

FF - prefs.js: browser.search.selectedEngine - Web Search

So I assume it's that one you mean.

For that, also, in Firefox, enter about:config in the urlfield again and enter browser.search.selectedEngine in the filter.
Then rightclick on that one and select to reset, or set it to "Google" or so.

Extra note - in case you didn't know... Browser preferences for firefox are not handled through the registry though, but through the about:config in firefox (which is the prefs.js file which is also present in your firefox folder under your useraccount)

This post has been edited by miekiemoes: 21 September 2011 - 05:05 PM

#20 mansoorB

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Posted 21 September 2011 - 06:32 PM

thanks so much

it seems to be all working fine now! I should add that under browser:search were another couple of lines showing websearch as the default - I reset all of them and it's good now.

Thanks once again - at least the day lost at my laptop resulted in a fix!!!

#21 miekiemoes

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Posted 22 September 2011 - 12:44 AM

Glad I could help

#22 miekiemoes

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Posted 29 September 2011 - 02:39 PM

It appears that this issue is resolved, therefore I am closing the topic. If that is not the case and you need or wish to continue with this topic, please send me or any Moderator a Personal Message (PM) that you would like this topic re-opened.