I used to be able to type my search string in the Address Line and Google sdearch produced results. Aftrer my last firefox update, it turned into BING. I HATE Bing. I want Google back. How do I change this back to google or other search engine????

(The details are in the question already)

Hi suseadoodle,
Sites like Bing, Yahoo, MSN, etc have been known to do things like this. Luckily it is an easy fix. Just take a look at [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Location%20bar%20search?s=address+bar&r=1&as=s#w_changing-the-internet-keyword-service this Knowledge Base article on keyword search].
Hopefully this helps!

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