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Authored by: saranrapjs on Jan 14, '02 08:22:26PM

In the interest of people having it not working, I reset my prefs and went through my steps. It didn't work. Why it worked the first time, I dont know, but im working on it because microsoft leaving out google pisses me off. again, sorry



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where the search pref is stored
Authored by: elroy_99 on Jan 14, '02 10:11:03PM

I did some poking around in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconfig.plist, which is where IE saves all its prefs, hoping that even if google wasn't selectable another search url could be added as a <key>/<ic-data> pair.

the prefs are stored as hex values, and translating them to ascii revealed that indeed your search pane settings are stored there, but the actual URL to the selected search engine is not.

Methinks that it may not be easy to make google work as the search if IE is reading the values from some file from the microsoft.com domain instead of locally...
:-(



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