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Offline Jen47

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How To Change Default Search engine to duckduckgo
« on: March 13, 2024, 12:51:07 AM »
I want to change the default search engine to duckduckgo. That's easy to do in Firefox because it has a list of search engines in setting option. But Avast browser doesn't have DuckDuckgo. It has only four options for search engine and DuckDuckGo is not one of them. How do I to add it and make DuckDuckGo the default?

Offline Libor Šlechta

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Re: How To Change Default Search engine to duckduckgo
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2024, 03:14:48 PM »
Hello Jen47,

To set duckduckgo as a default search engine. You first need to add new "Site search".

Go to secure://settings/searchEngines , click the "Add" button next to Site search and fill the form (most important is the URL - I recommend https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s )

Then you will need to click 3 dots next to the newly added entry. And there will be "Make default"



Offline Jen47

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Re: How To Change Default Search engine to duckduckgo
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2024, 05:09:05 PM »
Thank you Libor Šlechta. That worked perfectly!