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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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