This article describes the settings available in the Search panel of Firefox Settings .

Default Dearch engine

Firefox comes with the following search engines:

• Yahoo for searching the web via Yahoo
• Google for searching the web via Google
• Bing for searching the web via Microsoft Bing
• Amazon.com for searching for products on the Amazon.com retail website
• DuckDuckGo as a search engine for users who don't want to be tracked when they search
• eBay for looking up items for sale or auction at eBay
• Twitter for searching people on Twitter
• Wikipedia (en) for searching the English Wikipedia free online encyclopedia

Follow these steps to set your favorite search engine as the default:

1. In the search preferences window, select a default search engine in the drop-down menu.

   

2. Close the Settings page. Any changes you've made will automatically be saved.

Provide search suggestions

To turn search suggestions on or off, add or remove the check mark next to Provide search suggestions.

• Show search suggestions in location bar results. When search suggestions are turned on, select this setting to also include search suggestions in the Firefox address bar.

One-click search engines

When you use the Search bar in Firefox, you can choose alternate search engines with one click, if you don't want to use the current default.

To remove alternate search engines you don't want to use:

1. Remove the check mark next to each search engine you don't want.
2. Click the Remove button to take it off your list.

If you remove a search engine that you added yourself and you change your mind, you'll have to add it back again (see above). If you remove any of the search engines that come with Firefox by default, click Restore Default Search Engines to bring them back.

Reorder search engines Select the search engine you want to move. To move it up in the list, click Move Up. To move it down, click Move Down.

Remove search engines

To remove a search engine, follow these steps:

1. Click on the search engine you don't want.
2. Click the Remove button to take it off your list.

   

If you remove a search engine that you added yourself and you change your mind, you'll have to add it back again (see above). If you remove any of the search engines that come with Firefox by default, click Restore Default Search Engines to bring them back.

Reorder search engines

1. Click the search engine icon and select Manage Search Engines... to open the search engines manager.
2. In the search engines manager, select the search engine you want to move. To move it up in the list, click Move Up. To move it down, click Move Down.