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I selected Firefox as the search motor and of course Google took over as usual. How could I switch back to Firefox? I am over fed-up withe Google attitude to take over what ever it wants and get away with. could you help me? I would be very thankful.

'''I selected Firefox as the search motor and of course Google took over as usual. How could I switch back to Firefox? I am over fed-up withe Google attitude to take over what ever it wants and get away with. could you help me? I would be very thankful.'''

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Firefox is not a search engine. It uses search engines.

Type about:preferences#search<enter> in the address bar. You can select any search engine to be your default from here.

You can also remove any engine from here.