An add-on to force firefox switch to the default search engine in the search bar

Hello

I have a few search engines in the search bar of firefox. I find it extremely annoying that whenever I have change the search engine, that it stays like this, even after restarting firefox. Is there an add-on that would go to the one who is at the top of the list (which is my default for search engine being both navigation bar) whenever I restart the browser?

Let me give you an example: I use duckduckgo as a search engine by default in the search bar and navigation bar. Let's say I need to find a definition for which I use the wikipedia search engine. Then I go to wikipedia one. I disable the browser the next time I start firefox search engine that appears in the search bar is wikipedia and I would have preferred it to be duckduckgo.

I hope that's not waves.

see you soon,
Omen

Easier is to put the default engine for search engine preferred via the user.js file in the Firefox profile folder by copying the line user_pref() related to this file.

The user.js file is read whenever Firefox is started and initializes the preferences to the specified value in this file, so the preferences set via user.js can be changed temporarily for the current session.

You can search the topic: config page for browser.search. to locate the pref (s) you need.

  • user_pref ("browser.search.defaultenginename", 'Google');

You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder currently in use:

  • Help > troubleshooting information > profile directory: see file (Linux: open the directory;) Mac: View in the Finder)
  • Create the folder chrome (lowercase) in the .default < xxxxxxxx > profile folder if the folder does not exist
  • Use a text editor such as Notepad to create a file user.js (new) in this folder (the names are case-sensitive)
  • Make sure that you select "All files" and not "text files" when you save the file via "save file as" in the text editor as user.js
    Otherwise, Windows can add a hidden .txt file extension and you end up with one does not not user.js.txt file

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