I'm a retired PhD with multiple in depth interests, and I use the web as a resource daily, to look for practical information as well as for news and music, etc. Firefox has been my preferred browser for over a decade because of its versatility and - before now - its user friendliness for both low- and high-information content Web users. I've become reliant on Ixquick as other search engines have been relentlessly dumbed down in the last few years. When I run a search, I expect relevant results, according to the parameters I specify in the search syntax. I then expect to decide for myself which of these results are most likely to be useful - i.e., I do not want random results, including terms I have specifically excluded, with an arbitrary limit on number of hits returned. Examples may help. I have sought information on correlations between mammography OR sonography AND metastatic disease, for one example, or an MSDS with the LD50 of elemental sulphur, which I use as a garden fungicide and do not want to harm wildlife with, for another, or on the best way to add insulating night curtains to existing window treatments, for a third, or the effects of B AND/OR D vitamin deficiency on cognition in the elderly. None of this information is so obscure that nobody would ever be expected to look for it. It should also be quite easy to set very specific terms for all these searches and obtain highly relevant results. Yet search engines in general have become so badly dumbed down that none of those searches now return clean - or even relevant - results for many hits they bring back - no matter what I do to limit the search. Even IxQuick is beginning to bring back more and more trash hits. It now appears that IxQuick has been completely savaged. It returns ten results, no more, one page, no more. It ignores normal search syntax such as quotes, + and - signs, and Boolean operators. The Advanced function page is a placebo - does not clearly allow for expanding the number of hits returned, and ignores input into the "restrictive" search fields that are available there, such that one might as well not use them at all. Also, it seems impossible to change search settings to any meaningful extent on the Options page (in the wake of the latest update). [Side comment: combining the cookie and data cache access into one radio button was a really dirty trick to play on those of us who like to clear the cache independently. Please separate them in your next update.] I am still able to obtain multi-page results if I search in DuckDuckGo, but I set IxQuick as default for a reason. I would like to continue using it. Are there any fixes available through Firefox that will allow me to resume "intelligent" searches in IxQuick now, and obtain extensive results that actually conform to the search terms I have specified? Thank you. Apologies for any snark - it's not intended. As an intelligent user, I find this incredibly frustrating, and every time it changes, it becomes worse, not better.