Customizing Firefox

May 19, 2005 2:49 PM

Is it possible to change the default search engine in Firefox's context menu for selected text?

I tried editing browser.search.default.url in about:config from www.google.com to scholar.google.com but I still get Google searches from the context menu. I do have the Google Scholar plugin, but I'm looking to select and search on highlighted text with fewer moves.

posted by Pigpen to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Best answer: Conquery all the way.
posted by Zed_Lopez at 2:55 PM on May 19, 2005

Response by poster: Perfect. Thanks!
posted by Pigpen at 4:03 PM on May 19, 2005

Smartsearch
posted by jikel_morten at 9:14 PM on May 19, 2005

In case anyone wanders in, I've somehow managed to load 2x Amazon search plugins into the search bar in FF 1.03 (xp) and I can't for the life of me work out how to uninstall one of them.

Umm??
posted by peacay at 4:38 AM on May 20, 2005

Peacay, I think the way to do that is to go into C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins and delete the duplicate .src file there.
posted by llamateur at 11:08 AM on May 20, 2005

Thanks llamateur !
posted by peacay at 3:34 AM on May 21, 2005