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I still have windows 8 and when I click on FIREFOX, GOOGLE SEARCH COMES UP....OBVIOUSLY NOT ON FIREFOX....DUH ?

I still have windows 8 and when I click on FIREFOX, GOOGLE SEARCH COMES UP....OBVIOUSLY NOT ON FIREFOX....DUH ?

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Hi JO ANNE, the Firefox Home / new tab page has a search box which uses Google by default. Google pays Mozilla for the privilege.

If you want to search using a different site, several others are included (like Bing and DuckDuckGo). This article describes how to switch:

Change your default search settings in Firefox

If there is another one you prefer, you may be able to add it directly from that site, or from the Mozilla Add-ons site. If you don't find the way, let us know what you're trying to do.

If you home page isn't the built-in home page but a page on https://www.google.com/ and you want to use a different home page, this article should help with that:

How to set the home page

Can you get it working the way you want?