Whenever you enter a few keywords in your location bar, Firefox, in it's infinite wisdom, directs you to a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search result. But what if you want to see all of the results for that search term. Maybe you don't want this to happen at all (though it's really handy and I can't imagine why!). Well, with some editing on the about:config page, this can be done.
I assume that you're already in Firefox, if you're reading this, but if you're not, open it up.
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In the address bar type "about:config" and click Go/hit Enter.
This will take you to a page full of a bunch of stuff that most people don't understand, but mess around with anyway…What a good idea! Well if you don't know about this already, you'll understand a little more by the end of this tutorial. Thankfully, there's a search that you can use to find the values you want to edit.
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In the search box on this page, type "keyword".
You should get two properties, keyword.URL and keyword.enabled.
To make it to where entering a search term into the location bar will give you a normal Google results page, you want to edit keyword.URL.
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Double click on this property and enter the following URL into the dialog box:
http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=
Now try a search from the location bar, it should take you to a Google search.
Of course some people want their location bar to do what it was made for, and their search bar to do what it was made for. "Come on! We don't need all this messy mixing of functions!" Well if that's you, you can disable this feature altogether.
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Double click on keyword.enabled
The value should change to "false". Now the only thing you can enter into the location bar is a URL.
