Why is my search engine, which is set to Google, defaulting to Bing?
One day I clicked on an ad or something and suddenly I was redirected to Bing and now I seem to be stuck with it. I have tried all the suggestions posted but nothing works.
Chosen solution
Perform the suggestions mentioned in the following articles:
- Restore the default home page
- Select your preferred Search Engine in your Search Bar as described in this article -> Search bar - add, change and manage search engines on Firefox
Check and tell if its working.
IF it still doesn't work, then Start Firefox in -> Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if your add-ons/extensions are causing the problems.
- Also see this article -> Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems
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Type about:config in the Location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key. When you see a warning, click I'll be careful, I promise! button.
- Preferences that have been modified are shown as bold (user set).
- Preferences can be Reset to the default or changed via the right-click context menu.
-> In the Filter bar, type keyword.URL
- Right click the preference keyword.URL and click Reset
- OR choose Modify -> Replace the text with http://www.google.com/search?q= and then click OK
-> In the Filter bar, type browser.search.selectedEngine
- right-click the preference browser.search.selectedEngine and choose Reset from the menu
-> Close the about:config tab and then Restart Firefox.
Check and tell if its working.
Thanks for your reply. When I get to the final "Reset" it is greyed out so that I cannot click it. What should I do now?
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Modified by NoahSUMO
Chosen Solution
Perform the suggestions mentioned in the following articles:
- Restore the default home page
- Select your preferred Search Engine in your Search Bar as described in this article -> Search bar - add, change and manage search engines on Firefox
Check and tell if its working.
IF it still doesn't work, then Start Firefox in -> Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if your add-ons/extensions are causing the problems.
- Also see this article -> Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems
Modified by Hasan
If there is a problem with the about:home Home page then try to reset the search engine used on the about:home page.
Reset the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone pref via the right-click context menu to the default on the about:config page and close and restart Firefox to restore the about:home page to its default.
- Open the about:config page via the location bar
- Type in the Filter bar: mstone
- Right-click the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone line and select: Reset
- Close and restart Firefox
If that didn't help then delete the delete the chromeappsstore.sqlite file in the Firefox Profile Folder and repeat the above.