Thursday 31 October 2013

CHANGE ALEXA DEFAULT SEARCH FROM FIREFOX AND REVERT IT BACK TO GOOGLE

As most of users use firefox and out of them many users also has installed alexa toolbar. It is good habit to check rank of site and other information to save from malware sites. But what's the problem of alexa toolbar is that it changes your default search engine from google to alexa (when you search from address bar.). So it's not possible that we get accurate results as Google ( Search Giant :) ). So here is a small hack that how to change this default alexa search engine and revert back it to Google.

1. Open Firefox and in new tab in addressbar type "about:config" (without quotes.)

2. It will warn you but click on "I'll be careful, I promise." (See image. )

3. Now search for "keyword.URL".

4. One result will displayed then double click on it.

5. It will open a box here remove link and paste new link from below.
 http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=


Enjoy..!!!