So if you take a look at the original string, and the new one, the lengths of both strings are identical, as seen above. Finally, I needed to add a bogus (unused) form field to the URL, so that the string would be the correct length. Then I replaced apple with another This is obviously where my 'query' fits into the URL. This allowed me to take care of the first sequence I needed to retain. Putting at the beginning of a URL will not affect the loading of a site. The URL of the results page was: to keep my length constant, I needed to expand the string a little. To make Yahoo! the default search engine, replace the string: way I figured this out was by performing a search at for 'apple'. The second should represent where your 'query' would go in the URL. Second, you need to have two sequences in the string. First, the length of the new string must be the exact same length as the original. When changing this string, two things need to be kept in mind. Change the string to the search engine you'd like to use.The first occurrence will be a string that looks like this: is the string that needs to be modified. The command will probably look like this for most users: % vi /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari Launch Terminal, and use the vi editor to open the Safari executable file.This hint assumes you are familiar with the vi text editor.First, quit Safari and make a backup copy of the application. Unlike the method which was posted a couple of days ago, this method does not block normal access to. This hint describes a way of changing Safari's default search engine.

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