{"id":24999,"date":"2023-02-12T11:57:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=24999"},"modified":"2024-01-16T09:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T14:01:55","slug":"how-to-change-the-default-search-engine-in-chrome-edge-or-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-change-the-default-search-engine-in-chrome-edge-or-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the Default Search Engine in Chrome, Edge, or Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How to Change the Default Search Engine in Chrome, Edge, or Firefox<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We have recently had a lot of folks asking us how to change their browser&#8217;s default search engine. In this tip, we&#8217;ll show you how to change your default search engine on the desktop (Windows) versions of the three most popular browsers, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox. This tip is for Windows 10 and Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Google Chrome<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To change the default search engine in Google Chrome, follow these steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Open Google Chrome.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Type or copy &amp; paste <strong>chrome:\/\/settings\/search<br \/>\nin the address bar and press Enter.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/setsearch-g0.png\" alt=\"Change search engines in your favorite browser. Cloudeight\" width=\"598\" height=\"62\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Scroll down to the &#8220;Search engine&#8221; section and click on the down arrow to the right of &#8220;Search engine to be used in the address bar&#8221;.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/setsearch-g11.png\" alt=\"Set search engine - Google Chrome - Cloudeight\" width=\"592\" height=\"192\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the &#8220;Search engines&#8221; list, click on the search engine you would like to use as your default engine when you search from the Address bar. (See screenshot above&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Next, click on &#8220;Manage search engines and site search&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Under &#8220;Search engines&#8221;\u00a0 click the 3 horizontal dots to the right of the search engine you want to use and click &#8220;Make default&#8221; (see screenshot below):<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/gsearch14.png\" alt=\"Change Default Search Engine - Google Chrome - Cloudeight\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Close the &#8220;Settings&#8221; tab and your new default search engine will be used from now on.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Note: If you don&#8217;t see the search engine you want to use in the list, you can add it by clicking on the &#8220;Add a new search engine&#8221; button and following the on-screen instructions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Microsoft Edge<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Type or copy &amp; paste <strong>edge:\/\/settings\/search <\/strong>in the address bar.<\/span><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/edge-search.png\" alt=\"Change default search in Edge - Cloudeight\" width=\"590\" height=\"61\" \/><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Scroll down the page until you find\u00a0 &#8220;Search engine used in the address bar&#8221;.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/edge-search1.png\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Next, click the little down arrow (see screenshot above) and choose whichever one you want. The default choices are Yahoo, Google, and DuckDuckGo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can add more search engines if you want but those choices should be enough to get you started.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Mozilla Firefox<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Type or copy &amp; paste <strong>about:preferences#search<\/strong> in the Firefox address bar.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/ffsearch0.png\" alt=\"type about:preferences#search in the Firefox address bar. Cloudeight\" width=\"600\" height=\"51\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Under &#8220;Default Search Engine&#8221; click the down arrow next to the current default search engine (see screenshot below)&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/searchff.png\" alt=\"Change default search in Friefox - Cloudeight\" width=\"600\" height=\"118\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Select the search engine you want to set as your default from the menu that appears.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/searchff1.png\" alt=\"Choose your default search engine in Firefox. Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"234\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After you make your choice the search engine you chose will be your default.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As with Chrome and Edge, Firefox allows you to add more search engines to the list of search engine choices.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And now you know how easy it is to change your browser&#8217;s default search engine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; How to Change the Default Search Engine in Chrome, Edge, or Firefox We have recently had a lot of folks asking us how to change their browser&#8217;s default search engine. In this tip, we&#8217;ll show you how to change your default search engine on the desktop (Windows) versions of the three most popular browsers, Google Chrome,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-change-the-default-search-engine-in-chrome-edge-or-firefox\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,2574,2659,2660,2270,4183],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27698,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24999\/revisions\/27698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}