Why does my preferred search engine gets hide set to True in search.json after every update to Firefox?

I use DuckDuckGo as my preferred search engine. Everytime Firefox gets updated it dissappears from the drop down menu of search engines. I found in search.json that the Hide value would be set to True. By changing it to False and restarting Firefox DuckDuckGo would be back, until the next update. Why is this happening? It is an extension available from the Mozilla/Firefox extension/addons site.

First of all, thank you for providing troubleshooting info (Troubleshooter addon), have you tried the searchreset tool.
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/

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