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How do I change the default search engine to yandex.com ?

arvamircea
arvamircea

Hello Firefox friends o/

Anyone knows how do I make https://yandex.com my default search engine? (in the top bar of the browser). I have attached a screenshot of my settings page. Please have a look at the suspicious lack of an "Add" button 🤔. Despite my efforts, the drop-down menu will not show the available options in the screenshot, you will have to take my word for it, the only available options in that menu are: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, eBay and Wikipedia (en).

P.S. The settings page in Firefox must change really often, as I seen so many people suggesting many outdated methods online.

Hello Firefox friends o/ Anyone knows how do I make https://yandex.com my default search engine? (in the top bar of the browser). I have attached a screenshot of my settings page. Please have a look at the suspicious lack of an "Add" button 🤔. Despite my efforts, the drop-down menu will not show the available options in the screenshot, you will have to take my word for it, the '''only''' available options in that menu are: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, eBay and Wikipedia (en). P.S. The settings page in Firefox must change really often, as I seen so many people suggesting many outdated methods online.
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Click the blue "Find more search engines" line and enter Yandex in the search box on the next screen.

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ThePillenwerfer
ThePillenwerfer

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Click the blue "Find more search engines" line and enter Yandex in the search box on the next screen.

arvamircea
arvamircea Question owner

This is the link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search-engines/ And this is the addon I found: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/yandex-search-english

It did solve my issue, for now. Having to install an addon to change the default search is... very odd.

James (On Vacation)
James (On Vacation)
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Installing by way of extension can be one of the ways to install some search engines.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox