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How do I know if I am searching with Duckduckgo?

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stuartriley replied
stuartriley
stuartriley

Have just installed duckduckgo and an add on to Firefox. How can I tell if it is being used?

Have just installed duckduckgo and an add on to Firefox. How can I tell if it is being used?

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Scribe
Scribe

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Hi, open Preferences > Search, and look at the box 'Default Search Engine.'

You can also point your mouse at the search box and should see 'Search using DDG.'

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Happy112
Happy112

Hi   !
Have you done this :
3-bar menu => Options => Search and set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine under : 'Default Search Engine'  ? If you've done that :   you're using DuckDuckGo.

As for the add-on : 'Don't know what add-on it is,   but it should come with installation instructions. Maybe this will help :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/find-and-install-add-ons-add-features-to-firefox
https://www.accessfirefox.org/Install_Addon_Manually.php

stuartriley
stuartriley Question owner

Thanks for helping an old man. It is appreciated.