Typing a phrase in the Address Bar of Firefox 3.6 used to lead me to the relevant website, but this doesn't happen in FF4, even though keyword.enabled value is set to true in the config page. Why doesn this happen?

In the about:config page the keyword.enabled value is set to "true". And the keyword.URL value is set to "default". When I type a phrase in the Address Bar, a page with a Yahoo! search result opens unlike intuitively loading the relevant page using Google. Why is this happening?

To use the Google's browse by name feature as used in Firefox 3.6, set keyword.URL to this link:
[http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=]

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