It would help to know what operating system and screen reader your
using. I'm running Firefox on Linux with Orca, and I still have a
dedicated search bar. If I want to change default search engines for
that search bar, I just hit F6 and tab over to the search bar. Once
there, I use alt+down-arrow arrow down to the search engine I want and
then hit enter. That's now my default search engine.
On 10/15/2015 11:03 AM, Cohn, Jonathan C. (SRA) wrote:
> If you put the following line into your Firefox navigation bar, you should be able to adjust the default search engine.
>
> about:preferences#search
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> Jonathan Cohn
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> Hi VICUG members,
> In the last few months, I have noticed a pattern occurring that perhaps someone can advise me on how to correct. It recently occurred for my son who is sighted, when using my wife's computer for job applications.
> We changed internet service providers in April from Comcast to AT&T.
> Since doing that, if I clear the history, do some type of clean-up, my homepage reverts to Yahoo. Then, when using Firefox I might be asked what search engine I want to use even though my home page is currently lycos.
> I used google formerly as home page, but ran into incompatibility issues when using mobile facebook.com. I think lycos is one of those search engines that uses other search engines when putting in a search topic. Or, it appears to be that way. If I have not said so, lycos is my home page.
>
> How can I permanently make google or whoever I want to be the search engine of choice, and not have it revert to Yahoo?
> Thanks for the help folks!
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