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How to disable AVG search in the Firefox navigation bar

Submitted by Jochus on 5 Nov 2011 - 10:44
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If you want disable the AVG Search in address-bar, please follow these steps:

1) Type in address-bar about:config and press Enter
2) Confirm warning dialog
3) Find keyword.URL (you can use Filter)
4) Change value of keyword.URL to:

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=

Submitted by Zaz (not verified) on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 14:57.
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No, this doesn't work. Anyone know how to fix this problem?

Submitted by Jochus on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 20:48.
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What do you mean? What doesn't work?

Submitted by Zaz (not verified) on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 10:14.
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The search box next to the navigation bar is still set to AVG.

I have found elsewhere since my post that the correct fix for this is:

Go to the about:config page as before.

Find the row

browser.search.defaultenginename

Change it to

Google

Restart your browser, all sorted!

Submitted by Jochus on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 19:51.
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Yes, but that's not what this blogpost is about :-). It resets the search engine in the navigation bar, not the search engine box.
You could easily select the dropdown list too to select your favorite search engine.

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