You can also get there by clicking on about:preferences#search (that link will probably fail if you’re not running Firefox!) CHANGING DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE IN FIREFOX You’ll be taken to the Firefox Settings area: Click on the gear icon on the lower right. Notice along the bottom “This time, search with:” which lets you choose DuckDuckGo (the fourth icon from the left) for just a single search. Now, here’s a trick: Click in the address bar at the top and it’ll show a list of possible search engines: Notice the address bar and the box in the middle both say “Search with Google”. The easiest way to figure out what search engine your Firefox system is using is to simply open up a new tab:
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But you can change it, just as you can change what browser you use and what search engine it uses on every other operating system! HOW TO IDENTIFY YOUR DEFAULT FIREFOX SEARCH ENGINE That’s because Google helps underwrite the development of the Firefox browser through sponsorship. Including Firefox.īy default, as you say, the search engine is Google.
As a result, all Web browsers also have a million and one settings, preferences, and options. But there are a lot of Web browsers from which to choose, and since most use the same internal rendering engine, a lot of the differences are more related to the user experience than anything else. A spinoff of Mozilla, an open source Web browser project, Firefox has become quite popular with the Linux set, though most Mac and PC users opt for something from one of the big commercial companies, generally Chrome, Safari, or Edge. Firefox is one of the oldest Web browsers in existence, first released back in November of 2004.
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