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    <h1>enabling custom search engines on firefox</h1>
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      <p>enter the text below in firefox's search/url bar:</p>
      <code>about:config</code>
      <p>in the text field that says "search preference name", enter the text below:</p>
      <code>browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh</code>
      <p>make sure "boolean" is selected and press the + button on the right. it should automatically set the preference to true. if it doesn't, press the toggle button on the right (looks like 2 arrows pointing opposite directions)</p>
      <p>now go to firefox's search settings. you can get to it by putting the text below in the search bar:</p>
      <code>about:preferences#search</code>
      <p>the table with all of your search engines should now have a new button below it that says "add"</p>
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adding the files for the website (in its current state) 2025-07-20 16:01:33 -04:00			`<h1>enabling custom search engines on firefox</h1>`
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added header and actual nav, changed guides list to actual list, added licenses page 2025-07-20 16:48:27 -04:00			`<div id="pagewrap">`
			`<p>enter the text below in firefox's search/url bar:</p>`
			`<code>about:config</code>`
			`<p>in the text field that says "search preference name", enter the text below:</p>`
			`<code>browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh</code>`
			`<p>make sure "boolean" is selected and press the + button on the right. it should automatically set the preference to true. if it doesn't, press the toggle button on the right (looks like 2 arrows pointing opposite directions)</p>`
			`<p>now go to firefox's search settings. you can get to it by putting the text below in the search bar:</p>`
			`<code>about:preferences#search</code>`
			`<p>the table with all of your search engines should now have a new button below it that says "add"</p>`
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