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Does your FF also change default search to google after some updates? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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It's annoying as shit

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[–] njinx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never seen this. Do you have some kind of browser extension or malware?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I think I only have usual extensions, uBlock Origin etc.

[–] cereals@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Never had this problem. I'm using Firefox on Windows and Android with another search engine for years now.

[–] Sleeping@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Do you still have the Google search engine added? I always fully remove it, since Searx pulls from Google anyways, I don't really see the point in keeping it.

[–] artic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Only when I reinstall not update

[–] Zerby@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Happened twice ~6 months ago, even though I've removed Google from search engines. After that it never happened again. It's annoying but it happened only a couple times so it's not a big deal for me

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Hell no

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I did a quick search and found these old threads: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/firefox-82-0-2-sets-search-engines-back-to-default/35847/16, https://forum.manjaro.org/t/firefox-keeps-resetting-search-engines-on-manjaro/49260/4. These people have a similar problem, also on manjaro. I don't want to investigate any further tbh.

[–] Azzu@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Nope, never happened to me in 10+ years of usage, except when completely reinstalling after wiping everything.