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Adress bar search engine keeps changing to Wikipedia

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I've always had the adress bar set to do a Google search of whatever I wrote in there, with the actual sarch bar being used for Wikipedia, but for some time now the adress bar has been doing Wikipedia searches. I've tried changing keyword.URL in about:config and even restoring Firefox to default settings, but nothing worked. Any ideas?

I've always had the adress bar set to do a Google search of whatever I wrote in there, with the actual sarch bar being used for Wikipedia, but for some time now the adress bar has been doing Wikipedia searches. I've tried changing keyword.URL in about:config and even restoring Firefox to default settings, but nothing worked. Any ideas?

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Starting with Firefox 23 the keyword.URL pref is no longer supported and it is no longer possible to specify the search engine for the location bar that way.
The search engine that is used in the location bar is the search engine that is selected in the search Bar on the Navigation Toolbar.
You can disable automatic searching via the location bar by setting keyword.enabled to false and use a (one letter) keyword search to use a specific search engine instead to search via the location bar.

Another possibility is to disable keyword search (keyword.enable = false) and use a (one letter) keyword search for searching via the location bar.
You can set a keyword for an installed search engine via Manage Search Engines (click the search engines icon on the search bar).
That also allows to switch easily between search engines when searching via the location bar and you also do not have a problem with one word searches.

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Keazen oplossing

Starting with Firefox 23 the keyword.URL pref is no longer supported and it is no longer possible to specify the search engine for the location bar that way.
The search engine that is used in the location bar is the search engine that is selected in the search Bar on the Navigation Toolbar.
You can disable automatic searching via the location bar by setting keyword.enabled to false and use a (one letter) keyword search to use a specific search engine instead to search via the location bar.

Another possibility is to disable keyword search (keyword.enable = false) and use a (one letter) keyword search for searching via the location bar.
You can set a keyword for an installed search engine via Manage Search Engines (click the search engines icon on the search bar).
That also allows to switch easily between search engines when searching via the location bar and you also do not have a problem with one word searches.

See also: