Hello Is it, about, Add the Search bar to your Firefox toolbar. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-search-bar-firefox-toolbar Is it, about, browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/please-use-the-searchbox-but-not-the-address-bar-in-new-tabs/idi-p/4720 Try. 1 - Go to configuration editor for Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox 2 - Enter a search term '''browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar''' Double-click on the preference, to set its value to''' false''' About, browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar. Under, '''about:privatebrowsing''', it doesn't work. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/private-browsing-use-firefox-without-history Always use private browsing mode or to Never remember history, it works.

''<p>Gordon Paterson [[#question-1550184|said]]</p>'' <blockquote>how to search from fire fox search bar and not google </blockquote> Just to be clear, Firefox itself is a web browser and not a search engine as Google in this case is a search engine. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-custom-search-engine-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-settings-firefox