For a while now, I’ve noticed that if I type a serch term into the firefox address bar, I get search results via something called freecause.

Since I prefer Google, I decided to find out how to change the default address bar search.

It turned out to be quite simple:

in the Firefox address bar, type:

• about:config
• click the button that says: I’ll be careful, I promise
• in the filter box, type: keyword.URL
• double-click on keyword.URL (unter the Preference title)
• In the box that pops up, erase the existing text and then enter: http://www.google.com/search?q=
• click OK
• optional: close the about:config tab and restart firefox