One of
the ways web browsers make money is by selling their default search engine
spot.
For the
longest time, that highest bidder was Google for Firefox — hence why if you
searched via Firefox’s address bar, search bar, or default homepage, you would
use Google search (unless you changed it to something else). Recently, however,
Yahoo bought the rights to be Firefox’s default search engine. If you, like me,
prefer to use Google over Yahoo, this article will show you how to switch back.
Switching
back to Google from Yahoo in Firefox and making Google the default search
engine in Firefox again is actually very easy; you need to do the following:
- Open up Firefox Options. How to do this varies depending on which version of Firefox you have and if you made customizations or not. However, most people can open Firefox Options by clicking the button that has three lines and selecting Options:
- Once the Options window is open, go to the Search tab, select Google from the Default Search Engine drop-down menu, and click OK:
- Done! Now Google is again the default search engine for your Firefox.
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