Changing default search engine in Safari

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michaelwells Author

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Changing default search engine in Safari

Google is the default search engine in Safari on Mac OS X 10.5.2. How can I change it to another search engine?

MacBook Pro 2.4G 2G 200G 7200 RPM, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on May 20, 2008 2:55 PM

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neuroanatomist

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May 20, 2008 2:58 PM in response to michaelwells

With a 3rd party add-on such as one of these:

http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/
http://www.pozytron.com/?acidsearch

Hope this helps...

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michaelwells Author

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May 20, 2008 3:13 PM in response to neuroanatomist

Thanks for the help but I could not get Acid Search to work on my Mac. Is there a native way inside of the OS to change it? Or is there another program that will work. I would like to change from Google to Yahoo. I appreciate the quick response.

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May 21, 2008 5:59 AM in response to michaelwells

There's no native way to do this in Safari, you must use a 3rd party add-on.

What about Acid Search did not work? Did you try Inquisitor?

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michaelwells Author

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May 25, 2008 2:39 PM in response to michaelwells

Thank you

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TegarKC

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Aug 10, 2008 8:18 PM in response to neuroanatomist

I tried installing Acid Search v.62xx. It didn't work so I went back to the web site and it appears that Tiger was the last version it worked on.

I then did a search for AcidSearch and Leopard and there was a Beta of v.7xx.

http://www.pozytron.com/files/AcidSearch070b3.zip

I installed it. The installer said it was successful but it doesn't seem to work. Hopefully it will be out of Beta soon.

I did install Inquisitor and it seems to be working just fine

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