This is what I need to find again: The EU forces them to provide me with a choicescreen so that I can decide freely which search engine to use by default. Where can I change the search engine for the search bar on the home screen. And searching the settings for 'search' brings up nothing :-/ Now I can't find the place in the settings to change this to something else in the settings. This is now used in the bottom search bar on the home screen. Maybe this is a regression of that bug.When I set up my new phone (Fairphone 4) with Android 11 I selected Duckduckgo as search engine. There is also this 1-year-old question which is the exact same issue but in FF v68 & v69, and says that it was resolved in v71. I did note this 5 year old question about Firefox search was noted in the 'similar questions', but it doesn't address this issue at all. Here are my current search page settings: I think I may have changed the 'Search Suggestions' section (clearing all check marks), but I set it back to what I believe the default was and that hasn't resolved the issue either.

I've since changed it back, but that doesn't seem to have resolved the issue. About the only thing I remember changing was setting the 'Use the address bar for search and navigation' to 'Add search bar in toolbar'. I'm reasonably certain that I adjusted a setting or two several weeks ago, but I didn't realize that it had impacted the 'search from address bar of a new tab' functionality, so I didn't realize I'd broken anything important with my changes.

For the last several weeks, when I've hit, I get the DuckDuckGo home page and the thrill of retyping my search terms. I used to hit -T to open a new tab, type a search phrase in the address bar, hit and it would return search results.

In Firefox, I've got DuckDuckGo as my default search engine. I'm on Firefox 78.0.2 (64-bit) running on Win10.

Duck duck go search bar