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Comment by isaacremuant | Hacker News Reader

> Mozilla should allow users to choose their default search provider on installation.

That's EXACTLY what they do. The same way the did before. Google was the default and people could easily change it to bing, duck duck go or whatever they wanted.

They still can but the default is Yahoo instead of Google.

Options > Search > Default search engine.

It's really easy.

I'd advice you to CHECK things before spreading this kind of disinformation.

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I am 100% certain that when I updated to Firefox latest, my default search engine was changed. Give me just a moment to reconfirm.

Edit: Just confirmed. Installed FF 30. Turned off the option to receive search updates. Updated to latest, provider was still changed to Yahoo.

mine wasn't changed: it was DDG before, and still is.

My wife was complaining about that same thing. She was like "What the heck is Yahoo search?!? Is that even a thing?"

The default search changes if you have never touched the search option.

It probably changed even if you switched away from Google and back to it at some point.

Firefox checks the pref value, and if it equals the default it considers it a reset and removes it from the prefs override file. There's no way to hard set the equivalent of the default value.

But as mentioned elsewhere, now that the default is Yahoo, changing it to Google should stick forever.

I'm glad they added duckduckgo

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