Originally posted at https://lazybottom.blogspot.com/2009/07/ubuntus-default-firefox-search.html on 2009-07-31. # Ubuntu's default firefox search So I have been using Karmic for a while now and I recently noticed that Ubuntu folks have changed the default search engine from plain old Google to Google custom search. How did I notice? I frequently use Google's built-in calculator to find out info about a great variety of things, like currency conversion: ![[gsearch.png]] The above is what I usually expect. It spits out a quick result with the obligatory disclaimer underneath it. Then some search results appear below it, which 99% of the time are totally uninteresting once I get the actual information I was looking for. These days the same search query produced an output like this: ![[csearch.png]] Needless to say, this is does not really satisfy my needs. Now I don't have problems with these kinds of ads, my problem is that the calculator result is omitted. Hidden. Left out. So I went on and tweaked some settings like the *keyword.url* in `about:config` to no avail. My last attempt was to replace the default search engine with one of my "own" plain old google search plugins. Actually, I haven't managed to do this. Instead, I tried to add the plugin by another name, then use it instead of the ubuntu-supplied one. For this I have put up a simple [web page](http://zsol.web.elte.hu/google.html) with a stupid javascript that adds a new search plugin, which actually worked, so the story ends here.