How do I restore "I'm feeling lucky" search to the firefox url bar?

I used to be able to type in the name of a webpage in the firefox url bar, and I would go straight to to the website. For example, I would type in "rotten tomatoes," hit enter, and arrive at www.rottentomatoes.com. Now, instead of going directly to the website, it takes me to a google search page. This used to be set in about:config in keyword.url, but it's not working anymore. I have firefox 27 for windows.

Okay, I miraculously figured it out on my own. You can add keyword:URL back if it's missing. In case anyone else is having this problem: Go into about:config, right click where it says "preference name", select "new", select "string", for the name type "keyword.URL", for the string use this: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
You also have to have the keyword hack add-on installed or it won't work.

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I had this problem too, and just fixed it, and found a great website that helped.
1. In Firefox type about:config in the address bar and press ENTER.
2. Locate and double-click the entry for keyword.URL
3. Set the value based on which search provider you would like to use for your address bar searches. Here are a few search strings you can use.
Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=
Ask: http://www.ask.com/web?q=
Google: http://www.google.com/search?&q=
ChaCha: http://search.chacha.com/search/query?searchwithguide=0&query=
source: http://www.technipages.com/firefox-change-address-bar-search-provider.html
And if you want the I'm Feeling Lucky search, instead of just the Google page search, then put:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
instead of: http://www.google.com/search?&q=
I just did that, and it worked for me. I had to go through a bunch of the different options, but I found one that worked.
Source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=25cf5ea2bc5a2744&hl=en

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Hello all! I'm working on my final project for my intermediate programming class but I've hit a bit of a snag. This project is a "do whatever interests you, as long as it incoporates what we've learned this semester" type of project. (My personal favorite type of programming project!) I have a significant amount of code already complete, but here's my problem:
To put it simply, my program:
1) Takes a list of movie names
2) Gets the movie poster from Wikipedia
3) Saves the poster images to a folder
4) Creates an HTML file, so I can see a visual representation of every movie on the list (btw, how do you like my idea?).
I'm using (what I think to be) a very clever system of searching with Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" search (using detailed search terms such as "air+force+one+movie+wikipedia" that will, more than likely, always take me to the right page (if it exists))...
Basically, my getPic(String url) method is now throwing an exception when I try to search the page that Google redirects me to, and I'm guessing it might be because the code is trying to search the "I'm Feeling Lucky" redirect page, instead of the page it is supposed to redirect to.
I get the following error:
10000 BC
A connection to http://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=10000+bc+movie+wiki could not be established.
java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=10000+bc+movie+wiki
     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
     at java.net.URL.openStream(Unknown Source)
     at GetWikiPiki.getPic(GetWikiPiki.java:44)
     at MovieList.makeMovieList(MovieList.java:109)
     at MakeMovieList.main(MakeMovieList.java:13)(Etc, with all the movies giving the same exception.)
If my guess is correct, could someone please inform me on how to either:
a) Follow the redirection from Google to the Wikipedia page or
b) Obtain the URL which the Google search will redirect me to.
Preferably b, so I can program it not to need to recreate each movie search every time the program runs.
Or if you have another idea of what it could be, please feel free to make suggestions.
Thanks a lot,
Derek

When I tried printing the source of, for example, http://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=10000+bc+movie+wiki it gave me the source code to the Wikipedia 10,000 BC page with no errors at all.
Does this mean that it could be something wrong in my code and not Google?
Here is the code I'm using in the particular section that throws an exception:
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      * parsing the passed-in URL.
      * @param url The website address (URL) of a Wikipedia article containing a movie poster.
      * @return The first occurrence, in "picture_name.jpg" format, of an
      * image whose address contains "http://" and ".jpg".
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               InputStream in = connection.openStream();
               Scanner console = new Scanner(in);
               while(console.hasNext()) {
                    String temp = console.next();
                    if(temp.contains("http://") && temp.contains(".jpg")) {
                         String temp2 = temp.replace("src", "").replace("=", "").replace("\"", "");
                         return temp2;
          catch(IOException e) {
          System.out.println("A connection to " + url + " could not be established.");
          e.printStackTrace();
          return null;
     }{code}
Edited by: NovellTerminator on Apr 8, 2009 2:36 AM
Edited by: NovellTerminator on Apr 8, 2009 2:40 AM (Included JavaDoc)

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