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how to restoe private browsing

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how to change search back to google. Now taken over by Zone alarm update.

how to change search back to google. Now taken over by Zone alarm update.

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How is Private Browsing related to a search engine?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-bar-easily-choose-your-search-engine

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Note that your System Details List shows that you have a user.js file in the profile folder to initialize some prefs on each start of Firefox.

The user.js file is only present if you or other software has created it, so normally it wouldn't be there. you can check its content with a plain text editor if you didn't create this file yourself.

The user.js file is read each time you start Firefox and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so preferences set via user.js can only be changed temporarily for the current session.

If you do not keep changes after a restart or otherwise have problems with preferences, see: