Any search engine search crashes Firefox.

Any search engine search instantly crashes any browser I try (Firefox, Chrome, IE). I have checked all my add-ons, used safe-mode, and reinstalled Firefox--nothing has worked.

For 10.5/10.6, System Preferences>Network, unlock the lock if need be, highlight the Interface you use to connect to Internet, click on the advanced button, click on the DNS tab, click on the little plus icon, then add these numbers...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Click OK.
DNS Servers are a bit like Phone books where you look up a name and it gives you the phone number, in our case, you put in apple.com and it comes back with 17.149.160.49 behind the scenes.
These Servers have been patched to guard against DNS poisoning, and are faster/more reliable than most ISP's DNS Servers.

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How to add a search engine manually to Firefox. (No, not via add ons)

How to add a search engine manually to Firefox?
For example, what should I do add a custom search engine? It is not available via add-ons. When I go to the search page, Firefox doesn't detect it and it doesn't prompt me or allow me to add it as a search provider. I am looking for options similar to that in Chromium browser.
let's say for instance, if I want to add redhat bugzilla to my search providers, I can go to search settings and just add https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%s
Is there any similar option available in Firefox?

I use these;
'''[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-to-search-bar/ Add to Search Bar]''' {web link}
Make any pages' search functionality available in the Search Bar
'''[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/context-search/ Context Search]''' {web link}
Expands the context menu's 'Search for' item into a list of
installed search engines, allowing you to choose the engine
you want to use for each search.
'''[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchthissite/ SearchThisSite]''' {web link}
Allows you to search the website currently viewed with
the website's internal search engine (and not the default
FF search engine or an external engine)

"how do I find the list of search engines in my firefox brouser?"

I am trying to get rid of this irksome "sweetIM". And suggestions say remove it from my list of search engines. Where is this list? And, I am only an intermediate skill comp user.

I"m guessing that what happened is that you or someone inadvertently allowed the default search method to be changed in the keyword url search.
Search for any add ons or unwanted plugins and remove them. Then if that doesn't have the effect that you want,
go to your url window and type in
about:config.
Its going to tell you that you are voiding your free and not often used warranty.. Just click the "i'll be careful I promise button.
you will see a full list of things in alphabetical order. Scroll past them and find Keyword Url.
Right click on that and select modify.. type in google..Modify the search string to read google and then close your firefox and reopen it. Your default google search should work when you type in the keyword terms you're looking for.

Home Page - the search engine on my Firefox start page used to be google and has now changes to Ask . How to I get google back

I suspect some toolbar has changed the search engine on my home page which is the standard Mozilla Firefox start Page. It used to be google but now is Ask. I want to change it back to Google.

You can open the about:config page via the location bar and do a search for ask.com via the Filter at the top of the about:config page. 
You can reset all ask.com related prefs that appear bold (user set) via the right-click context menu to their default values.
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Preferences+are+not+saved

I can not set Yahoo as my default search engine in my Firefox. How can I fix it?

My Firefox's default searc h engine is Google. I have updated my Firefox to 35.0, but still I can not set Yahoo as default search engine.
Please help me to fix this probeblem. I want to use Yahoo for searching.
Thanks,
Munir

Check these out;
Book mark and use this;
'''Download the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/ Mozilla Search Reset]''' {web link}
This add-on is very simple: on installation, it backs up
and then resets your search preferences and home page
to their default values, and then uninstalls itself. This
affects the search bar, URL bar searches, and the home
page.
'''[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchthissite/ SearchThisSite]''' {web link}
Allows you to search the website currently viewed with
the website's internal search engine (and not the default
FF search engine or an external engine)
'''[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-to-search-bar/ Add to Search Bar]''' {web link}
Make any pages' search functionality available in the Search Bar

HAVE CRAWLER SEARCH ENGINE INSTEAD OF FIREFOX PAGE

after downloading firefox have crawler engine instead of firefox page

Install, update, and run these programs in this order. They are all free for personal use, but some have limited functionality in the "free mode" - but those are features you really don't need to find and remove the problem that you have. '''''(Not all programs detect the same Malware.)'''''
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - [http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php] 
SuperAntispyware - [http://www.superantispyware.com/] 
AdAware - [http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/] 
Spybot Search & Destroy - [http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html] 
If these don't find it or can't clear it, post in one of these forums for specialized malware removal help: 
[http://www.spywarewarrior.com/index.php] 
[http://forum.aumha.org/] 
[http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/] 
[http://bleepingcomputer.com]

How can I delete the search engines included with Firefox? What happened to Mozilla's independence?

I'm not happy that Mozilla is supplying numerous search engines with the software. I want to delete them, not just hide them.
What happened to Mozilla's independence?

Hello WA9KWS, type (or copy/paste) in address bar the next :
chrome://browser/content/search/engineManager.xul
and see '''IF that allows to delete search engines'''.
thank you

Search Engines searching only US sites, need UK!

My Curve 9360 search engines have suddenly started searching US only sites, Im in the UK so a bit of a problem! Have looked everywhere but am unable to change this. I've tried changing the search engines but still US only searches. Can anyone help?
Many Thanks

Hi Natasha 300574,
In the browser Press the Menu Key then choose Options and on Home Page : www.google.co.uk ,
Then press Use Current or just type http://www.google.co.uk/ then save it .
Good Luck
Prince
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Bing highjacked my search engine on the Firefox tool bar. Where do I correct this?

My Firefox Toolbar has always featured Google. Bing has highjacked this function. I want Google back on the toolbar. How do I do this?

Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks.
* Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22
* Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_18 for Mozilla browsers
Update the [[Java]] plugin to the latest version.
*http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (Java Platform: Download JRE)
Update the [[Managing the Flash plugin|Flash]] plugin to the latest version.
*http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

In Google Chrome we can easy setup the shortcut for a website search engine for example youtube we could short cut like "yt" or "utube" are the any ways to do the same in firefox 4.0?

for Chrome, we would right click in the address bar and choose Edit search engine, but in firefox I can't find where and how to set it up... It seem like firefox quite hard for the advance user ... Btw, I'm newbie so anyone can show me how please? Thank you!

Yes it does, the link I posted above show how to create them.

An add-on to force firefox switch back to default search engine in search bar

Hi,
I have a couple search engines installed in firefox's search bar. I find it extremely annoying that each time I change the search engine it remains like that even after restarting firefox. Is there any add-on that would switch back to the one that is on the top of the list (which happens to be my default search engine for navigation bar as well) every time I restart the browser?
Let me give you an example: I use duckduckgo as a default search engine for the nav bar and in the search bar. Let's say I need to find a definition for which I use wikipedia search engine. I switch to wikipedia one then. I turn off the browser and the next time I start firefox the search engine that appears in the search bar is wikipedia and I would prefer it to be duckduckgo.
I hope it isn't to vague.
cheers,
Omen

Easiest is to set the preferred default engine to the preferred search engine via the user.js file in the Firefox profile folder by copying the related user_pref() line to this file.
The user.js file is read each time Firefox is started and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so preferences set via user.js can only be changed temporarily for the current session.
You can search the about:config page for browser.search. to locate the pref(s) that you need.
*user_pref("browser.search.defaultenginename", "Google");
You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
* Create the chrome folder (lowercase) in the <xxxxxxxx>.default profile folder if this folder doesn't exist
* Use a plain text editor like Notepad to create a (new) user.js file in this folder (the names are case sensitive)
* Make sure that you select "All files" and not "Text files" when you save the file via "Save file as" in the text editor as user.js Otherwise Windows may add a hidden .txt file extension and you end up with a not working user.js.txt file
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/user.js_file

How to get get real, custom search engines on Firefox Mobile

So, I have been trying for some time to get my own, favorite search engines into the Firefox Mobile search bar. I finally found a rather complicated workaround:
Get a free account at www.shortmarks.com - use your spam-only Gmail address or similar.
Manually create a search plugin for Shortmarks.com and place it in the "searchplugins" folder of Firefox Mobile. On my Android phone, the folder is in
/mnt/sdcard/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla/XXXXXXXX.default/
Create the search plugin as an .xml file with the following text:
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>Shortmarks</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>ShortMarks</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Image width="16" height="16">data:image/gif;base64,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</os:Image>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://shortmarks.com/s.php?q={searchTerms}">
</os:Url><os:Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://www.keywordssuggest.com/complete/search?output=firefox&client=firefox&qu={searchTerms}">
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>
... and place the file in the searchplugins folder.
After this, you can create your custom searches with shortcuts on www.shortmarks.com, and use them directly from the address bar.
So...: Is there an easier way of doing this?
nrabett

The search plugins from addons.mozilla.com can be installed directly in Firefox mobile, but - to my knowledge - not the ones from Mycroft. The advantage of using the self-made Shortmark search plugin it that it allows adding any search engine - not only the ones from addons.mozilla.com. Furthermore, you can import all custom search engines from an existing Desktop Firefox version to Shortmark, and access them directly by using the familiar abbreviations in the Firefox Mobile search bar - e.g., gb for Google Book search.
The process of creating this very useful function would be far easier if www.shortmarks.com was added as a downloadable search plugin from addons.mozilla.com. As said, search plugins cannot be imported to Mobile Firefox directly from Mycroft.

Why does my preferred search engine gets hide set to True in search.json after every update to Firefox?

I use DuckDuckGo as my preferred search engine. Everytime Firefox gets updated it dissappears from the drop down menu of search engines. I found in search.json that the Hide value would be set to True. By changing it to False and restarting Firefox DuckDuckGo would be back, until the next update. Why is this happening? It is an extension available from the Mozilla/Firefox extension/addons site.

First of all, thank you for providing troubleshooting info (Troubleshooter addon), have you tried the searchreset tool.
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/

On my windows 7 laptop, after trying two suggestions, I cannot GET RID of yahoo as the Firefox search engine!!! Help Please!!

For two weeks I have been fighting to remove yahoo as the search engine with Mozilla Firefox. I am running the newest version of Firefox. I followed information I found online and fixed my desktop. The same information will not work on my laptop. The path was (about:config) (type keyword.URL in the filter box) ( on the string that appears, right click on keyword.URL) (select modify) ( type in the url of your choosing, choices are given) and that is supposed to fix it. It did on my desk top not my laptop.

After months, I think I figured it out...
I was frustrated because I like to use the url bar as my search engine, which is not fixed using the link posted by jadeye.
Try this...
* In your address bar, type in: “about:config”
* Inside of the filter search box, type in: browser.search.defaulturl
* ctrl click and choose “Modify”
* Type in: http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
* Do the same process with: keyword.URL and use:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
I think those steps finally fixed it for me. F-ing Blingee / SearchCanvas. What a racket.

I want to change my search engine to Google- your instructions don't work! How do I know if I have a "localized" version of Firefox?!

Just downloaded Windows 8.1 and it asked ME if I wanted to change my search engine on Mozilla - showed my the instructions, but it would not work, and then in small printing it says "this may not work because your have localized version" or some nonsense like that. I want to change my search engine on Mozilla Firefox to Google.

See:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Search+bar

Any search engine search crashes Firefox.

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