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Change search engine on Firefox 4+ Start Page
// ==UserScript==
// @name about:home -> Switch Search
// @namespace http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2158301
// @include about:home
// ==/UserScript==
let SearchEngines = {
Google: {
"name": "Google",
"searchUrl": "http://www.google.com/search?q=",
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Bing: {
"name": "Bing",
"searchUrl": "http://www.bing.com/search?q=_searchTerms_",
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},
Yahoo: {
"name": "Yahoo!",
"searchUrl": "http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=_searchTerms_",
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}
}
let logo = document.getElementById("searchEngineLogo");
logo.setAttribute("title", "Click to switch search engine.");
logo.style.cursor = "pointer";
logo.addEventListener("click", function(e) {
switch (JSON.parse(localStorage["search-engine"]).name) {
case "Google":
localStorage["search-engine"] = JSON.stringify(SearchEngines["Bing"]);
break;
case "Bing":
localStorage["search-engine"] = JSON.stringify(SearchEngines["Yahoo"]);
break;
case "Yahoo!":
localStorage["search-engine"] = JSON.stringify(SearchEngines["Google"]);
}
document.location.reload();
}, false);
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