Goddamned Microsoft with its dirty Bing

Microsoft is struggling with its search technology and market share. This goddamned company is now trying to invade into your Internet browser and change your default search to Bing without your consent.

When you type a keyword into the Location Bar, Firefox does a keyword search of your history and bookmarks. Results are displayed in a drop-down list. If you do not select a result from the drop-down list but just press enter, Firefox takes you to the top Google result for that search by default.

However, by modifying the preference called keyword.URL, you can change this behavior. This is how the dirty Microsoft invades to your browser and changes its default search to Bing.

Now, how should we remove the goddamned Bing and get our Google back?

1. On your Firefox’s Location Bar (a.k.a. address bar), type “about:config”.
2. You will be prompted with yellow triangle warning stated your action might void your warranty. Don’t panic, just click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.
3. On the Filter bar, type “keyword.URL”.
4. Double-click it and replace the string value to http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
5. Click OK and you’re done!

Here are a few example values for different search behavior:

Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" (default pre-Firefox 2.0)
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

Google "Browse by Name" (Automatically takes you to sites with a clear match, else performs a Google search) (default in Firefox 2)
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

Google Search (Google search results page)
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=