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Google opens as my home page when I open Firefox

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Why does my home page always go to Google when I open Firefox. Firefox is set as my default browser

Why does my home page always go to Google when I open Firefox. Firefox is set as my default browser

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What do you have here? see screenshot

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Also, for North America and much of the rest of the world, searches through the address bar and built-in search boxes are sent to Google. They pay Mozilla to be the default search engine in new installations of Firefox. To change your default search engine to a different service, see the following article:

Change your default search settings in Firefox