How can I disable SSL (https) google search in FireFox?

I know that Firefox 14 has enabled Secure Sockets Layer (SSL or https) search for its Google search plug-in. How can I disable it?

Thanks,

lina

Posted 2012-07-21T08:24:25.573

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Go to %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins
Open google.xml
Replace any https://... By http://...
Do not forget to log out your Google account. If you are logged in, you will be redirected to the SSL protocol.

Bobs

Posted 2012-07-21T08:24:25.573

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Brilliant! I was looking for that whole web. :D – nothing-special-here – 2012-11-28T12:21:00.593

It's been a year since breceivemail answered this question and there are little changes:

If you can not find google.xml file or by chnaging it, nothing happens, follow these instructions:

If you have not created a Firefox profile:
1. Go to %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\browser\searchplugins
2. Open google.xml file and replace https with http.
3. Save it and you're done.
  - If you have a firefox profile created, After changing google.xml:
4. Go to your Firefox profile. HOW?
5. Delete search.json file and reopen your Firefox

undone

Posted 2012-07-21T08:24:25.573

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non of these two solutions works for me now :( – Bobs – 2013-09-09T11:19:17.920

@breceivemail what version do you use? – undone – 2013-09-09T19:20:18.350

version 24.0 beta – Bobs – 2013-09-10T05:06:09.840

@breceivemail It's google not firefox! – undone – 2013-09-10T06:05:21.627

I've searched but it seems there no easy way to stop google from redirecting requests to HTTPS. – undone – 2013-09-10T06:06:12.257

You can get Google to knock off the redirects by changing your user agent string. I put my experience in a new answer. – hmqcnoesy – 2013-09-28T18:28:45.957

The above accepted answer used to work for me, but it appears it is no longer sufficient. I noticed using Fiddler that sending HTTP requests to Google would always return 302s, redirecting me to the HTTPS url as long as a Firefox user agent string was included in the request header. This is my current user agent string using Firefox 24 on Windows 7 x64:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0

So for me, a simple fix was to start using the User Agent Quick Switch add-on for Firefox. I changed my user agent string like this - just removed the Firefox/24.0 at the end:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101

And now I am getting Google without HTTPS again. Go figure.

hmqcnoesy

Posted 2012-07-21T08:24:25.573

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