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Mozilla partners with Ecosia for a better web | The Mozilla Blog
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Cool stuff, now of Firefox didn't switch back to Google every major update or so, that would be great... because I actually do have Ecosia selected and need to switch back to it every once in a while because hey why not
I've never had my search engine change from an update, and I use it on Linux, Android, and macOS. I set mine to DDG years ago and it has never changed.
I suspect that is something specific to Ecosia, that they changed parameters from time to time which changes the entry, making your selected one no longer available, and then this happens: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-engine-removal
The fact that they announce Ecosia now after it's been available for a bit, makes me think this is what happened. I'll see
You might want to check if Windows is the culprit.
Using Linux here
Dunno then my friend. It's not been an issue for me on either OS. But I believe you of course. Good luck figuring it out