MindSuburbia

Yes, Firefox is creating a myriad of firefox-ized pages all over the internet. Like the Google search page renamed Mozilla Firefox Start Page, which is actually on hosted the Google servers.
Ok, they’re not “nags”, but it feels like they’re putting too much of it everywhere.

So i decided i don’t like the Goole search personalized with the firefox logos.

In order to substitute that one, you will have to create a new search engine in the search bar with the original url, and remove the modded one.

The fastest way is:

1. Open your folder

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins

and edit with a text editor the file google.xml

2. Search for the line

and change the url in the last double quotes to:
http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?qu={searchTerms}

You may also want to remove the “dynamic parameters” part:
<Param name="rls" value="{moz:distributionID}:{moz:locale}:{moz:official}"/>
<MozParam name="client" condition="defaultEngine" trueValue="firefox-a" falseValue="firefox"/>

In this way you will have Google ad the default search, but with the “original” Google style.

Advanced version

1. Install the search engine in your Firefox

click to install now

2. Insert about:config in your browser url textbox and filter by browser.search. Then set browser.search.defaultenginename as “Google Original”

3. You might want to go to “Manage Search Engines” by clicking on the down arrow of the search engine bar and reorder the list with Google Original as first and Google (by firefox) as last (or second)

4. Enjoy the original version of the Google search engine

Hacking the hack
You would probably want to personalize the search engine or create a new one.
The trick is:
1.To have a javascript function to add the new engine:
AddEngine Javascript source

2. To have a source file for the engine specs
Google search sourcefile

and an icon
Google search icon

3. Then you make an HTML file with the javascript and the link to execute the addEngine function:
<script src="http://www.mindsuburbia.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/addengine.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<a href='#' onClick="javascript:addEngine('Google Original','http://www.mindsuburbia.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/google.src', 'http://www.mindsuburbia.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/google.gif'); return false;">click to install now</a>


4. You will notice that in your profile folder in

C:\Documents and settings\\Application Data\
Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\\searchplugins

you have a corresponding xml file like this

which would just make the magic (without anything of the above) after restarting Firefox.