Options\Advanced\Update\Search Engines: Check this to receive automatic updates to your search engines. > ??? Updates to my search engines?? Explain please.
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The Firefox "Menu Bar" has a 'Tools' list/menu, wherein lies an 'Options' option.
This produces a window which presents eight further sets of options, which are selected by clicking on an 'icon' at the top of this window. Clicking on the "Advanced" icon, and then the "Update" tab, allows me to select, or deselect, the option to "...receive automatic updates to your search engines."
The Mozilla Support search engine was unable to find a match for the above question; can any of Mozilla's helpers locate the missing explanation?
What search engines are these? What updates are these?
Kaikki vastaukset (2)
Yes, the Help page says "Check this to receive automatic updates to your search engines."
I think this means the search engine plugins listed on the drop-down list at the left end of the search bar. I'm not sure if all of them are checked for updates, or only the ones that come from a Mozilla site. I can't think of a reason to turn this off, unless you are in the habit of editing your search plugins, in which case an update might cause you to lose your changes.
Thank you. I had used the Customize Toolbar option to remove that item from the Navigation Toolbar as I like settings in the online version of one or other search engine, and I had not played with this feature to see if it was that flexible.
Now all I need is to find out what is indicated when Firefox "updates" these plugins, and whether they are of any actual use.
Thank you for your contribution.