Change Safari’s default search to Mahalo
November 21st, 2007 by Dave. 2 Comments »
I’ve decided I’m going to try Mahalo out, after I saw Chris Baskind’s tweet. I’ve played with it a little, but it’s not my default search - I’m going to test it properly, so now, it is my default search, from Safari (current browser of choice).
I couldn’t find any howto’s on changing the default search in Safari to Mahalo, so here it is:
- Open Terminal
- Run:
perl -pi -e 's/google.com\/%@\?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8/mahalo.com\/Special:Search\?%@=%@&0=00/g' /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari(this should all be on one line within Terminal)
P.S. I take no responsibility if it breaks Safari. If it does breaks, just uninstall and reinstall Safari and all should be fine. If it’s not, leave a comment and I’ll try and figure that out for you (within limits)