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Jodihmm
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I have firefox for browser and when I open my browser to google. In website has google I type and go's to the top of firefox browser instead google search engine. Please help I want to search in the google search engine. Not firefox browser search engine. Thank you

I have firefox for browser and when I open my browser to google. In website has google I type and go's to the top of firefox browser instead google search engine. Please help I want to search in the google search engine. Not firefox browser search engine. Thank you

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James
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Jodihmm said
Please help I want to search in the google search engine. Not firefox browser search engine.

The company Mozilla does not have a search engine of their own so their Firefox web browsers uses a search engine whether a default or one you choose. Google is the search engine in many of the language locales though some others have different ones as the default search engine.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-features-google-as-default-search-provider-in-the-u-s-canada-hong-kong-and-taiwan/

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-firefox-address-bar https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-settings-firefox

Terry
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Enter about:config in your address bar, accept the risk as asked then search for handoff. Change the following preference to false. browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox