Search engine changes on its own
I have my search engine set to Duck Duck Go. Fairly often, it changes to Google or eBay without my asking it to. How can I keep this from happening? I'd like to lock my settings?
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Hi Margaret, that shouldn't happen. Which of the following seems to be the situation:
(1) Default Search Engine setting is changing from your last setting. See the steps in the following article to find and adjust that setting:
Manage Firefox search settings
Do you notice that changing in response to a specific event, such as:
- every time you quit and restart Firefox
- every time you shut down and restart Windows
- some other timing
(2) Default Search Engine setting is fine, but when clicking in the address bar to enter a new query, the little widget at the left end changes to a different search engine while you are typing.
(3) The address bar looks normal, the drop-down says Firefox will use DDG, but the results appear on a different site.
(4) Some other strange chain of events.
(1) I have my default search engine set to Duck Duck Go. Every now and then it changes, and I usually don't notice until I don't get the results I want. Often it's changed to eBay or Wikipedia or some other constrained environment. Then I go look at the Firefox settings and the default has changed there.
I go in and out of Firefox a lot. I don't shut down and restart Windows very often, and it definitely happens more often.
I can't identify any specific situation, so it's "some other timing."