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How to delete "Search with Wikipedia (en).." in the URL field when I open Firefox

nycrich3
nycrich3
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When I open Firefox from my task bar, a window comes up titled New Tab. In the URL field is "Search with Wikipedia (en) or enter address." I have Windows 10 and this problem occurred 5 days ago and I have not been successful in getting rid of the reference to Wikipedia in the URL field.

When I open Firefox from my task bar, a window comes up titled New Tab. In the URL field is "Search with Wikipedia (en) or enter address." I have Windows 10 and this problem occurred 5 days ago and I have not been successful in getting rid of the reference to Wikipedia in the URL field.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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The phrase will mention whatever your current default search engine is. Do you want to change your default search engine from Wikipedia to a different site? The steps for that are in the following article:

Change your default search settings in Firefox