Make sure that keyword search is turned on, and reset the keyword service to use Google. For details of how to do that see the first half of the [[Location bar search]] article.

1. If you would type '''walmart''' and use '''Ctrl + Enter''', Firefox will automatically add the '''''www.''''' and the '''''.com''''' to avoid that problem. 2. Comcast employs a "Domain Helper Service" ''(which is really a DNS '''hijack''')'' which re-directs those URL bar searches to their own search engine, rather than allowing the "Keyword service" as set in Firefox to get the "search". Comcast has been doing that for 2 to 3 years now, depending upon which of their service areas you reside in. Many other Broadband service providers do that, too; but most offer an ''' "opt out" ''' for that questionable "helper service". ''($50+ a month for their damn service, and they gotta mess with their users in this manner, for a fraction of a cent for each re-direct they send to a thinly veiled search partner of theirs. How warped are their minds to actually consider that a "service"??)'' Comcast has a similar '''opt out''' feature available. <br /> http://coreygilmore.com/blog/2009/07/23/opt-out-of-comcasts-dns-helper/ <br /> The "opt out" is easier now than when that article was written. <br /> https://dns-opt-out.comcast.net/