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How do I restore search manager, which disappeared when I tried to remove ask.com from the Search Engine list?

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KendrickPereira
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I want Google to be my default search engine.

I tried to remove Ask.com from the list of search engines available. I find this search engine quite hopeless but it seems to be established as the default search engine.

So far as I am aware I followed the directions in Firefox Help. I selected Ask.com in the list and clicked Remove. Not only that search engine but the entire search engine space [cage, box, panel - whatever it is to be called] disappeared. How can I get it back? I now have no search engines at all available without going to their own websites.

I want Google to be my default search engine. I tried to remove Ask.com from the list of search engines available. I find this search engine quite hopeless but it seems to be established as the default search engine. So far as I am aware I followed the directions in Firefox Help. I selected Ask.com in the list and clicked Remove. Not only that search engine but the entire search engine space [cage, box, panel - whatever it is to be called] disappeared. How can I get it back? I now have no search engines at all available without going to their own websites.

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cor-el
cor-el
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If you remove an item from the toolbar then it is moved to the Customize palette. You can drag it back to the Navigation Toolbar.

  • "3-bar" Firefox menu button > Customize
  • View > Toolbars > Customize
KendrickPereira
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I did not remove an item from the toolbar.

I merely deleted one search engine from a list of search engines in a drop-down box. There were a number of others in the list that I did not delete including Google, Chrome, Yahoo and others.

But the entire facility has disappeared.

cor-el
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Do you still have the (Google) search bar on the Navigation Toolbar?