Thursday 31 January 2013

How to stop Yahoo being the default search engine in the Firefox address bar, and get Google back

Get Google back.

So if you type a search term into the address bar in Firefox, which search engine does it use?
Well somehow, sometime, somewhere mine swapped to Yahoo, and I couldn't find out how to get it back to Google. So I found out (thanks to Robert Stocks) how to "fix" it on my PC, so it uses Google instead.

  1. Go to Firefox - Help - Troubleshooting information option.
  2. Change the word "support" in the address bar to "config"
  3. Read the message and promise to be careful
  4. Search for "keyword.URL" and see if there is any information in the Values column?
  5. My version had blurb about yahoo, so if you right click and Modify, remove everything so the value is blank, and click OK.
  6. Hey presto, fixed.
  7. Be happy and just a little bit smug!

Tuesday 15 January 2013

How to use Windows 8 - in 3 mins

Enlightenment!

Windows 8 - You Tube video guide - will make your life easier in 3 mins!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi8NpwiEuzc

 Thank you Scott Hanselman