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Stop OpenDNS’ hijack of Firefox

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I love OpenDNS but really dislike the page it redirects to when you enter a keyword into the URL/address field while using Firefox. Here is how one would fix that:

Enter about:config into your address/URL field.

Enter keyword.URL into the filter field.

Double click the value section of the keyword.URL line. A dialog window should pop up and enter one of the following depending on search engine preference.

http://www.google.com/search?q=

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=

firefoxurlkeyword

Written by xabbott

December 28, 2008 at 12:53 am

Posted in browser, firefox, internet, tips

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  1. This does not work! all the websites say to do this exact thing and I am still hijacked. i have found many other who have done this and they have the same result, opendns has probably found a way around this. how can you “love” open dns???? they are a scam spyware company that hijacks people’s toolbars. complete scum. they sell your info too, scum scum scum!

    lindsay

    March 12, 2009 at 8:47 am

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  2. Fuckin hell!!!!

    There arnt any simple fixes out there!!! i have looked… its ether – ‘just follow these easy 73 system altercations’ type things….
    or the same useless crap that dont work…
    BURN IN HELL OPEN DSN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    f

    March 23, 2009 at 7:16 pm

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  3. burn in hell? open dns didnt do anything wrong, the other people who vote for this and that do.

    my workplace blocks even images from wikipedia, which is completely retarded.

    and they allow gambling sites, nevertheless.

    this search won’t work. tried.

    burn

    April 8, 2009 at 8:01 pm

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  4. Thanks sooo much this got rid of the F****in open DNS, most annoying spyware/hijacking software ever….THANKS AGAIN

    Shiv

    May 10, 2009 at 2:41 am

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  5. Open DNS hijacks your damn computer PERIOD.

    Its a damn scam service,use zoneedit.com, that is unless you like having your shit hijacked to scams and links of their choosing.

    It’s all about Money Period. I’ve set it up with no filtering yet it keeps redirecting me to spyware sales pages and other bullcrap.

    Kingfish

    June 24, 2009 at 1:26 am

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  6. If you don’t use Open DNS, and it just appeared out of nowhere and hijack your browser, try delete your cookies. I searched for Open DNS cookies and deleted them all, worked for me. The other methods I found didn’t work.

    QuocNT

    September 2, 2009 at 7:52 am

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  7. Works perfect
    Thanks

    Mike

    October 15, 2009 at 3:13 pm

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