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my default search engine was changed from duckduckgo to the fucking google, i know that i dont have malware on my pc, i dont have addons, what the fuck.

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userbutonlyfornow
userbutonlyfornow

so i was using firefox, and i looked something up.

BOOM

so my default search engine was changed to google. did i do this? no. did someone else do this to my computer? no. do i have addons? no, besides the ones like pocket that mozilla just decided that i needed (which i dont by the way). do i have malware on my PC? no according to my up to date windows and free trial of malwarebytes, well to be specific malwarenytes did say i have malware but what it marked as malware isnt malware, its just something im using for myself.

why.

so i was using firefox, and i looked something up. BOOM so my default search engine was changed to google. did i do this? no. did someone else do this to my computer? no. do i have addons? no, besides the ones like pocket that mozilla just decided that i needed (which i dont by the way). do i have malware on my PC? no according to my up to date windows and free trial of malwarebytes, well to be specific malwarenytes did say i have malware but what it marked as malware isnt malware, its just something im using for myself. why.

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First off FF doesn't change unless malware or toolbars were installed that caused the change or some other software install that you agreed to that stealth install that changed the URL. So FF by default doesn't change this and you need to do some backtracking to see what was installed and look at your add/remove options to see what was installed that didn't exists there before to see what is going on. But I will iterate FF by default doesn't change URL on a clean install it goes to a Mozilla site and only changes when the user changes the default HomePage url.

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WestEnd
WestEnd

Chosen Solution

First off FF doesn't change unless malware or toolbars were installed that caused the change or some other software install that you agreed to that stealth install that changed the URL. So FF by default doesn't change this and you need to do some backtracking to see what was installed and look at your add/remove options to see what was installed that didn't exists there before to see what is going on. But I will iterate FF by default doesn't change URL on a clean install it goes to a Mozilla site and only changes when the user changes the default HomePage url.

Happy112
Happy112

@ userbutonlyfornow :

It would be really helpful to others, if you would tell us what exactly solved the problem for you.