#Restore firefox search defaults install#

Newly-installed search engines are stored in the Firefox profile folder 'searchplugins' folder, so you can have search engine files in both locations. You will see a 'Show search suggestions' checkbox at the bottom of that window.ĭefault search engines are stored in the Firefox installation directory 'searchplugins' folder. You can also click the Google icon in the Search Bar to open 'Manage Search Engines'. If you don't want to see these suggested search terms, the last item in the Search Bar context menu is 'Show Suggestions' and has a checkmark if that option is enabled. Note that search 'Suggestions' are not your search history but are loaded in real-time by querying the Google search engine site based on what you've typed so far in the Search Bar. See article, Deleting autocomplete entries for more information. You can delete individual elements by selecting them and pressing the 'Delete' key. If 'Clear Search History' is grayed out then the search history is already empty. Just right-click the text area of the Search Bar to open the context menu and select 'Clear Search History'. You can clear the previous searches from the Search Bar. This will not remove any added search engines. This will add back all of the default search engines if some of them are missing. (If the 'Restore Defaults' button is disabled or 'grayed-out', as shown above, that means that all of the default search engines are still available).Īnother way you can restore the default set of search engines is to use the Firefox Safe Mode option, Restore default search engines. you can restore them using the 'Manage Search Engines 'Restore Defaults' button. If you have removed any of the default search engines. In the list of installed search engines, simply select the unwanted engine and click the Remove button.ĭefault search engines that come pre-installed in Firefox currently include Google, Yahoo, Bing,, eBay, Twitter, and Wikipedia (previous Firefox versions used to include and Creative Commons). You can uninstall search plugins you don't want in Firefox by opening the 'Manage Search Engines' search engine manager. If you don't see an 'Add Search Engine' dialog box, make sure that JavaScript is enabled.Īn easier way of adding individual search engines as needed is with the Add to Search Bar extension by right-clicking within the search form on a web page and using the 'Add to Search Bar.'.Īnother method of using a search later is to create a keyword shortcut for the search by right-clicking within the search form on a web page to create the shortcut with built-in context menu item 'Add a keyword for this Search.'.

#Restore firefox search defaults install#

(A more comprehensive collection of search plugins is available at Mycroft.) Click one of the search engine links to install the new search plugin. You will be taken to the Search Engines page at Mozilla Add-ons where some of the more popular search plugins can be installed. To add new search engines to the Search Bar, click the search icon, click 'Manage Search Engines -> Get more search engines.' Starting in Firefox 2, you can reorder or remove entries from the list of search engines in the Search Bar by selecting 'Manage Search Engines.', located at the end of the list of search engines. For example – Search Google for 'selected words'. The selected search engine is also the search engine used when you choose words in the body and use right-click you will be offered a context menu item to use the selected engine to search for the selected words. The selected search engine will be displayed in boldface within the list, and will be the search engine used from the search box. You can also use 'Ctrl+Up'/'Ctrl+Down' to cycle between the available choices. To see the list of available engines click the icon at the left of the bar, and a list showing the available search engines will appear. The Search Bar supports more than one search engine. You can use 'Alt+Enter' to open search results in a new tab. Press the 'Enter' key or, in Firefox 2 and above, use the 'search' button and your search will be run. To search, click in the Search Bar (or press 'Ctrl+K') and start typing. 5 Viewing filtered results from search engines.