For some unknown reason Camino only ships with the option for Google as your search engine of choice in the search box. I have switched from Google search to Yahoo! search, so wanted a way to be able to use the Camino search box for Yahoo! and not Google.

My temporary work around was to just initiate my web searches with LaunchBar, where I could quickly and easily search with Yahoo! (or any other service of my choosing.) But some times it's handy to use your web browsers search engine.

I just ran across an article on MacOSXhints on how to add search engines to Camino's list! Wahoo, and it's really easy too.

All you have to do is add a new key in the file :
/Users/[Your User Account]/Library/Application Support/Camino/SearchURLList.plist

In the Pref Setter image below you can see the strings I used to add Ask and Yahoo!, if there are others that you would like to add, you can search out how to do that, or just try doing a simple search at the engine of your choice, and replace the search text with %s in the searchurl file.

You can see that I now have Yahoo!, and added ASK for the heck of it too.

You can edit the plist file in a text editor, but a much better option is the free plist editor Pref Setter.

Here is what editing a plist file looks like in Text Wrangler:


Here is what editing a plist file looks like in Pref Setter