406638 - a way to remove cooked google start page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[deleteaccount]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

I would like a way to replace the cooked firefox google start page that comes up when you hit return with nothing in the search box with the real google search page.

Failing that, I'd like the cooked page to at least include the language tools link that the real page has so that I don't have to click all over the place to get it.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

It's possible, although you have to modify the plugin itself.

- in Explorer, go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins
- edit google.xml (right-click on the file, and choos edit)
- at the end, you'll find :
    <SearchForm>http://www.google.com/firefox</SearchForm>
- change that to :
    <SearchForm>http://www.google.com/</SearchForm>
- save the file
- restart Firefox