Back in the older versions of flock, as well as all versions of Firefox, when you type a random term into the address bar and press enter, it takes you to the I'm Feeling Lucky result from Google. In the new Flock it's taking me to the regular search results from yahoo (yuch). How can I change it back to taking me to Google's I'm Feeling Lucky result?
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Patricia
Hello Reporter,
You can change the search box's default search engine to Google in Tools | Options, choose Searching, then change the field: Default Search Engine to Google and press OK. You can type any random term at the search box and press enter to return Google search result. I hope this helps.
Patricia
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I actually have it set that way already. It still takes me to the Yahoo search page.
Todd
I've been begging for this for a while! This is the only thing keeping me from using Flock as my primary browswer.
Firefox does it
Safari does it
Opera does it
Camino does it
Shiira does it
Why can't Flock do it?
All I want to do is type an address...like "flock" into the address bar (not the search bar) and have it bring me to flock.com.
PLEASE!!!!
Evan Hamilton
Hey Todd,
A couple folks have asked for this. We will definitely be looking into implementing this or making an extension that does it. Will give you an ETA as soon as I hear one.
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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Todd
Thanks Evan, but I already fixed it.
There is a post about changing some strings in about:config...I jsut copied the data out of Firefox and poof....fixed
Flock is now my primary browser!
Evan Hamilton
Awesome, Todd! Where is this post? I should stick it in our FAQ or at least have it on hand. :)
Flock on!
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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http://www.flock.com/forums/support/flock-and-opendns
That'll tell you how to do it. Just put
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=in the keyword.URL field in about:config and it will take you the the I'm Feeling Lucky result.Todd
Here's how to do it.
type about:config in the address bar
find "keyword.url"
change the value to: "http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q="
Evan Hamilton
Thanks Todd!
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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Jonathan Brazil
Indeed, thank you very much Todd. Having Yahoo results returned instead of Google results was my one bugbear with Flock but it was very, very annoying. I'm Flocking happy again though! :)
jdidur
For future reference, a faq entry was written up by another one of the support guys on this and can be viewed at http://www.flock.com/faq/show/30#q_11642
Josh Didur
Community Support Intern
dikidera
I like the regular :)
Bharti
great work!
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doesn't work on the new version, yahoo sucks and i dont understand why flock would change this, it's really frustrating.
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fixed it: they renamed the key to flock.keyword.provider to try to trap us with the g.d. yahoo crap.
just enter http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= under flock.keyword.provider and you can get around this proprietary b.s.
Happy Now
Thanks for that last post. This finally fixed it. All the other info on the web was outdated.