Search engine changed without explicit permission by me

racklinc — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:55:09 GMT

Today I had my default search engine changed from Ecosia to DuckDuckGo. I don't trust DDG due to past controversies they have had. I have changed it back to Ecosia, but please don't force this change on me. If I get irritated enough to change my default search engine back to my preference because it got changed against my will, I will get irritated enough to complain about it.

Don't be Microsoft.

Re: Search engine changed without explicit permission by me

Standard8 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:33:56 GMT

Firefox should not be changing the default search engine without the user selection. There are some circumstances where third party software will change the default, but I suspect that may not be the case here.

If this happens again, please file an issue at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org and include details of your set-up, e.g. how you added Ecosia originally, the url used for DuckDuckGo when you search, any add-ons you've installed, when it happened, etc.

This will let us investigate and see if we can see what is happening.

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