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FireFox Google search sucks

Mitchell4500

Mitchell4500

Android Enthusiast
I really like FireFox mobile but I hate the search for Google. It uses the crappy mobile version instead of the sexy Android/smartphone one.

Is there a way to change this and use the smartphone version?
 
I haven't used the firefox mobile app. Does it have the option to change the user agent to computer in the firefox settings?

Is there a link at the bottom of the google page to view full version?
 
Go to google.com in the center towards the bottom of the screen press the blue hyperlink that says classic...and you are on the full google site
 
I've been trying to customize firefox to my liking as well and I've found a few things.

For my Android smartphone, I was able to get my google search results to use the android version by switching my "User Agent" to "Android (Nexus One)" via the "Phony" add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/phony/?src=api). Not sure I'll leave it this way all the time, but it did work for me.

From my Xoom I really just wanted the "classic" search results and not the mobile version. Changing the user agent didn't do much because I believe the search add-on in Firefox is explicitly requesting the mobile results. To work around this I just installed a different Google search add-on from: Mycroft Project: Google Search Engine Plugins - Firefox & IE8. The top Google search in that list did exactly what I want and I just disabled the integrated one.

Hope this helps.
 
I really hate to bring back such an old thread, but I have resolved the issue!
Do the following:
1. Type about:config into the url bar on firefox mobile
2. Search "keyword" (without quotes)
3. Tap "Modify" underneath "keyword.url
4. Enter the following:
http ://www.
google .com/search?&q=
Click to expand...
(remove spaces)
5. Click "Ok"
6. Your welcome :)
 
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