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search from Firefox widget only works with some search engines

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I've added the firefox widget to my home screen on my new android phone, but if I select any of the search engines I've added (DuckDuckGo, Qwant or english wikipedia) as my default search engine in firefox, the search feature of the widget doesn't work. It displays the usual page with an input field at the top, with a magnifying glass on the left, but there's no grey text saying which search engine will be used and no icon showing it. And entering anything only open a list of previous searches, but pressing the magnifying glass (the enter key of the on screen keyboard displays a magnifying glass in this case) gives no result..

If I select Google (I won't use that), Twitter, Amazon or "Wikipedia (da)" which were there from the start (I guess firefox have registered that I've select danish as language in the phone, and added "Wikipedia (da)" based one that), they seem to work, but none of those are good for the type of searches I normally perform).

What can I do? I've swiped "Firefox" and "Firefox search" off the list of recently used apps between starts of fiefox to select default search engine and starts of the widget to make sure they weren't running and used some cached values.

I've added the firefox widget to my home screen on my new android phone, but if I select any of the search engines I've added (DuckDuckGo, Qwant or english wikipedia) as my default search engine in firefox, the search feature of the widget doesn't work. It displays the usual page with an input field at the top, with a magnifying glass on the left, but there's no grey text saying which search engine will be used and no icon showing it. And entering anything only open a list of previous searches, but pressing the magnifying glass (the enter key of the on screen keyboard displays a magnifying glass in this case) gives no result.. If I select Google (I won't use that), Twitter, Amazon or "Wikipedia (da)" which were there from the start (I guess firefox have registered that I've select danish as language in the phone, and added "Wikipedia (da)" based one that), they seem to work, but none of those are good for the type of searches I normally perform). What can I do? I've swiped "Firefox" and "Firefox search" off the list of recently used apps between starts of fiefox to select default search engine and starts of the widget to make sure they weren't running and used some cached values.