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Stan Bailey
Stan Bailey

Well so far Tod’s had Duck Duck take over and replaced Firefox as my default browser. Finally fixed this by deleting Firefox. Reinstalled and now Ihave Google as my defaults browser. Go and figure!!! I go to Settings and App Browser Defaults many time but doesn’t correct problem.

Well so far Tod’s had Duck Duck take over and replaced Firefox as my default browser. Finally fixed this by deleting Firefox. Reinstalled and now Ihave Google as my defaults browser. Go and figure!!! I go to Settings and App Browser Defaults many time but doesn’t correct problem.

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Paul
Paul
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Hi Stan

This support article should help:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/make-firefox-your-default-browser

James
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Stan Bailey said
Well so far Tod’s had Duck Duck take over and replaced Firefox as my default browser. Finally fixed this by deleting Firefox. Reinstalled and now Ihave Google as my defaults browser. Go and figure!!! I go to Settings and App Browser Defaults many time but doesn’t correct problem.

Firefox is a web browser while the Google and Duckduckgo you are seeing in Firefox are search engines.

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

Mozilla the makers of the Firefox web browsers does not have a search engine of their own.