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Firefox Private Browsing/Google is in Search bar

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Rebecca Grauso
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I'm not sure what to do about my search engine? It's telling me I have a new private tab, but the search bar tells me it's Google. when I choose what search engine I want to use in my settings, I only have the choices that are listed. But what about my Firefox browser, the one that I want to use and the one that I thought I was getting/would have?

I'm not sure what to do about my search engine? It's telling me I have a new private tab, but the search bar tells me it's Google. when I choose what search engine I want to use in my settings, I only have the choices that are listed. But what about my Firefox browser, the one that I want to use and the one that I thought I was getting/would have?

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James
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Firefox for Windows, Linux, macOS and mobile versions for Android and iOS/iPadOS is a web browser. The company Mozilla does not not have a search engine of their own.

A search engine is for example duckduckgo.com, google.com, bing.com etc.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-engine-firefox-ios https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-or-disable-search-engines-firefox-ios

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