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Update Firefox’s search bar with new Google favicon

Have you noticed the new Google search favicon? I am not sure if Google intends to keep it forever but I like the refresh. You can update the Firefox’s default Google search plugin to show the new Google search icon: Locate the searchplugins folder in your Firefox install folder. (typically C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ on Windows). Open the google.xml [...]

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Power-up the Firefox search bar

Peers is a nifty Firefox extension developed by The Peers Bros. that brings some cool new tricks for the search bar to help you get faster to what you’re looking for. Instead of just suggesting terms to autocomplete your keywords, it provides actual search results from Google or Yahoo! search engines for the partially typed words, [...]

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