How To Change Firefox Browser Search Settings

Posted on 7/23/2023 10:21:27 PM by Staff
help Category: Browser Settings
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Mozilla FireFox Browser Settings

Change the search engine settings for Mozilla FireFox.

Step 1

Add a Search Engine to the FireFox Browser

Go to https://Analyzn.com/search. This will tell Firefox that Analyzn is a search engine.  When the page is finished loading, right click in the address bar to show the address bar options.

Click on, Add Analyzn, with the Green Plus over the icon. This will add the Analyzn search engine to Firefox's Search Engine list.

Step 2

Change the Firefox Default Search Engines to Analyzn

Enter about:preferences#search in the FireFox Address Bar, and hit Enter.

This will open the Search Engine settings page for FireFox.

Select the default search engine

 

Step 3

Stop Firefox from Searching in the Address Bar

To Disable the Address Bar Searching from searching the default search engine type in about:config in the Address Bar, and hit Enter.  A warning may appear.
In the ‘search preference box’ enter the following for each setting you want to change.

  • To disable AI search steering go to edge://settings/privacy and turn off secure DNS to stop forcing specific sites.
  • To disable AI suggestions go to browser.urlbar.suggest.searches and change it to false.
  • To disable AI  address bar searching go to keyword.enabled and change it to false.
  • To stop the browser AI from changing what you typed set browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" and change it to false.

Side Note
Change the Mozilla's Firefox Address Bar from its default search engine provider, Google