Change your default search settings in Firefox

The Search panel in Firefox Options Preferences Settings lets y'all customize your search options. You lot tin can add together or remove search engines, modify your default search engine, assign or change keyword shortcuts, turn the search bar on or off, and choose whether to display search suggestions first or not at all.

Table of Contents

  • 1 Open the Search console
  • 2 Search bar
  • 3 Default search engine
  • iv Search suggestions
  • 5 1-click search engines
  • 6 One-click search alternatives
  • seven Remove or add search engines
    • 7.ane Remove a search engine
    • vii.two Restore default search engines
    • 7.3 Add a new search engine
  • 8 Search engine keywords

Open the Search console

  1. In the Carte bar at the height of the screen, click and select . Click the card button Fx89menuButton and select .
  2. Select in the left pane.

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  • Use the address bar for search and navigation: This is the default setting. It provides a unified search and address bar.
  • Add search bar in toolbar: Select this setting if yous adopt a separate search bar.

Default search engine

Use the drop down menu nether Default Search Engine to choose the search engine y'all wish to use past default.

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Note: Some extensions that are added to Firefox can prepare a new default search engine.

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You lot tin can disable or remove the extension that made the change or you can cull another search engine from the drop-downwards menu, if you adopt a different default.

Search suggestions

As you type into the search bar or the address bar, your default search engine shows you suggestions based on popular searches or on your previous searches. See Search suggestions in Firefox for more information.

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  • Provide search suggestions: Select this setting to turn search suggestions on or off.
    • Show search suggestions in address bar results: When search suggestions are turned on, select this setting to also include search suggestions in the results that are listed when you search from the Firefox address bar. Upward to two suggestions from your Search history may also appear. These will be indicated with a clock icon instead of a magnifying glass icon.
    • Testify search suggestions ahead of browsing history in accost bar results: Select this setting to testify search suggestions before your browsing history.
    • Prove search suggestions in Private Windows: Select this setting to testify search suggestions in Private Browsing windows.

One-click search engines

When you lot start typing in the address bar or search bar, you lot'll see icons for other search engines you lot tin can search with:

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You can choose an alternative search engine and use it for your search with 1 click, if y'all don't desire to utilize the current default.

To remove culling search engines you don't want to be displayed in the search bar or address bar, remove the check mark next to the search engine listed in the Search panel under One-Click Search Engines. This will non remove the search engines themselves.

One-click search alternatives

When you starting time typing in the address bar or search bar, you'll see icons below the search suggestions, to search instead with other search engines, Firefox Add-ons, Bookmarks, Tabs or History.

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You lot tin can choose an culling search type and use it for your search with one click, if yous don't want to employ the current default.

To remove culling search engines yous don't desire to be displayed in the search bar or accost bar, remove the cheque mark adjacent to the search engine listed in the Search panel under Search Shortcuts. This will not remove the search engines themselves.

Remove or add together search engines

To remove a search engine from Firefox, restore the default search engines that come with Firefox or add a new search engine, go to the Search Shortcuts One-Click Search Engines department of the Search console.

Remove a search engine

  1. Click on the search engine you desire to remove, to highlight information technology.
  2. Click the Remove push at the bottom, to take it off your list.
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Note: You lot must use the Add together-ons manager to remove any search engines installed equally Firefox extensions (see Disable or remove Add-ons for details).

Restore default search engines

If you remove whatsoever of the search engines that come up with Firefox past default, click Restore Default Search Engines at the bottom of the Search panel to bring them back.

Add a new search engine

  1. Click the Discover more search engines link at the bottom of the Search panel.
    • A Firefox Add together-ons page will open, list bachelor search tools.
  2. Click on the search engine y'all want to add and click Add to Firefox.

For more than information about calculation or removing search engines, see Add or remove a search engine in Firefox.

Search engine keywords

You can assign or change keyword shortcuts for your favorite search engines to brand it easier to perform a search. For more data, run across Assign shortcuts to search engines.

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