Change Firefox's Default Search to Google Australia

Here's how you change the toolbar's default search to Google.com.au in firefox:

Find your search google.xml file.

On my Ubuntu machine machine it's here:
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/google.xml
On Windows it's probably in here somewhere:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins
On a Mac I think it's somewhere here:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/Firefox
(that's probably incorrect)

You'll see something like this:


<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search">
<Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
<Param name="ie" value="utf-8"/>
<Param name="oe" value="utf-8"/>
<Param name="aq" value="t"/>
<!-- Dynamic parameters -->
<Param name="rls" value="{moz:distributionID}:{moz:locale}:{moz:official}"/>
<MozParam name="client" condition="defaultEngine" trueValue="firefox-a" falseValue="firefox"/>
</Url>


All you need to do is change the "template" attribute of the XML file, with your favourite text editor to this:

http://www.google.com.au/search


<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com.au/search">


Done! Now restart Firefox and enjoy.

Here's how to do it on Safari

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