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how do i restore google search when typing into the address bar? or xfinity ate my search engine

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when the xfinity guy installed our internet he changed all my settings, awesome. now when i type into the bar to find something i get xfinity instead of google. and their search engine is not very helpful. i looked on the firefox site and all it says is that if you type into the address bar google is the default. how do i restore the default? thanks everyone!

when the xfinity guy installed our internet he changed all my settings, awesome. now when i type into the bar to find something i get xfinity instead of google. and their search engine is not very helpful. i looked on the firefox site and all it says is that if you type into the address bar google is the default. how do i restore the default? thanks everyone!

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about:config. sure enough it was changed to xfinity. reset. thank you!