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Default search engine does not exist

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mimdoc96
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When I go to firefox preferences and then go to "search," I try to click on the arrow below "default search engine" but nothing comes up. When I try to search in the address bar, it takes me to websites named after the first word I typed. When I tried searching in a separate tool bar, I'd type something, hit enter, and nothing would happen. Please help, this is very annoying because whenever I want to search something I have to type google and then type my question in on the actual google website.

When I go to firefox preferences and then go to "search," I try to click on the arrow below "default search engine" but nothing comes up. When I try to search in the address bar, it takes me to websites named after the first word I typed. When I tried searching in a separate tool bar, I'd type something, hit enter, and nothing would happen. Please help, this is very annoying because whenever I want to search something I have to type google and then type my question in on the actual google website.
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Terry
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It seems you have no search engines installed. At the bottom of that page in Preferences you will find a button labelled "Restore Default Search Engines" and a link "Find more search engines" (neither of which I have used). The Mycroft Project is useful for adding search engines. If a website has a search engine, you can add it by clicking on the three dots towards the right of the url bar and selecting "Add Search Engine".