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How to Restore Default Search Engine In Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome

If you have done something wrong in your browser and by doing that you have lost your default Search Engine and now you don’t know how to restore it. Well in that case this post is for you my dear friend. I’m writing this post to help you restore your default search engine in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

How to restore Google Chrome default search engine:

Step1. Click on the “wrench icon” located at the upper right corner of your browser.
Step2. Now go to “Options” (Preferences on Mac and Linux; Settingson a Chromebook).

Step3. Open the “Basic” tab.

Step4. Click on the “Manage search engines” button.

  • Now remove the search engine you don’t use by just selecting it from the list and clicking the “x” that appears at the end of the row.
  • Now add a search engine:Scroll to the bottom of the dialog and fill out the following fields:
    • Add a new search engine: Enter a nickname for the search engine.
    • Keyword: Enter the text shortcut you want to use for the search engine. Use the keyword to do keyword searches.
    • URL: Enter the web address for the search engine. Learn how to find this URL
  • Edit a search engine: Select the search engine from the list and click the field you want to modify.
  • Make a search engine default: Select the search engine you want to use as your default search engine and click the Make default button that appears in the row.

This is all you will require to follow to restore the default search engine in your favorite browser. If you find some problems in the simple steps i have written then drop me a comment and i will surely help you!

How to Restore Default Search Engine In Firefox

The default search engine in Mozilla Firefox browser Google search. But if you have made some mistake by installing some Ad on or doing something else then this guide will help you to restore the default search engine in Firefox.

Step1. Open Firefox browser
Step2. Type about:config in location bar and press enter.
Step3. Search for configuration key keyword.URL and select it.
Step4. Right click on the configuration key keyword. URL and choose Reset from the shortcut menu.

You are done with the changes, Have fun now. Share feedback with me.

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How to force Firefox to save/remember passwords of secure https website like paypal

Firefox is mostly used and effective browser. When you login to any web site, Firefox offers to save your user name and password. But it has some limitations and some pre configured things like, it will not ask you to save passwords for secure https websites like paypal, banking websites for internet banking logins and so many websites are there for which firefox will now ask you to save passwords.

Some of you want to save passwords for those sites then here is a working and tested trick to force firefox to save passwords for https and secured websites.

You don’t need to do anything simply open this url

Trick 1

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password

and click on Remember Password and a popup box will open saying this

Removed autocomplete=off from 0 forms and from 0 form elements, and removed onsubmit from 0 forms. After you type your password and submit the form, the browser will offer to remember your password.

just click on ok and restart browser and now firefox will ask to save passwords for secure websites also.

Trick 2 (in case above trick dont work)

Here is another trick that is lil bit techy and you have to do some coding changes in firefox:

  1. Close any instance of Firefox.
  2. Open up C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\nsLoginManager.js using notepad. (Change the location to where you have installed Firefox)
  3. Search for the line: _isAutocompleteDisabled : function (element) {
  4. Delete the three lines after this line.

In our Firefox installation, these lines were at line number: 725, 726 and 727. Take a look at the screen shots below for more details.

Before:

After:

Have fun enjoy the tips and tricks

If you find the trick is not working or any issues just drop a comment here and i will get back to you asap.

thanks