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That means you are using Google.com as your default home page. That is NOT the same thing as setting the search engine.Quote:
I click on the Firefox icon (taskbar). It brings up a Google Web Page.
Go to the "3 lines button" (top right corner) > Options
Click on the Home tab (left side)
Set the Homepage and new windows to https://duckduckgo.com/
If you just type a search word in the address bar, it should take you to DuckDuckGo (assuming you set the search engine correctly)
Right-clicking on the page in Firefox and selecting Save As is doing exactly what it should do - save a link to that page. If you are wanting to capture a screen image of the Firefox browser window, you need to use a screen capture program (Microsoft's Snipping Tool, or other third party application) to do that.
Midknyte ; THANK YOU!! THANK YOU !! Your last instructions worked perfectly!! I finally got what I needed. As time progresses, I get rustier & rustier on these type of matters. And thanks to jdc200 for his info also.
I had another inquiry on my third post regarding the registry. Any info on that.? Again, thanks all......................
As jdc2000 suggests in post #8...
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...39#post1555939
...deleting things from the registry can have negative unintended consequences. Especially things that would ubiquitously be there like references to google.
If you set the default home page to Google.com, of course all your searches would be through Google.
Assuming you haven't changed other settings, you should be able to just type search words into the address bar
jdc2000's link shows how to set the default search engine when searching from the address bar. You can also have a dedicated search box by setting "Add search bar in toolbar"
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ttings-firefox
It seems like you resolve one issue only to find another. I decided to dump Google Chrome on my main PC also. I had been using the voice search on it as similar with my cell. But without out Chrome, I have no voice option & I do not see an option in Firefox. Is there a workaround? Thanks
That feature isn't built into Firefox, but they have a Voice Fill extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...on/voice-fill/