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What happened to the search engine toolbar drop down menu

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What happened to the search engine drop down menu?

What happened to the search engine drop down menu?

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What happened to the search engine drop down menu?

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Please explain the problem in detail. What happens? What is/are the exact error message(s) ?

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In the search bar/box, in the previous versions, the toolbar there used to be a pull down where you could select different search engine. I am not sure when it changed, but now it uses the default search engine selected in settings and is the only one that appears. Any other questions feel free to ask. Thanks!

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One of the reasons I still use the Legacy Firefox.

Give this a try; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contextual-search/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search Context Search by Olivier de Broqueville, Carl Scheller

Search selected text using your preferred search engines. Right-click or Alt-click on selected text to respectively launch the context menu or the icons grid. You can also perform searches using keywords in the url address bar. Requires Firefox 62+.

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Thanks FredMcD. That should do the trick. Wow that's some list of search engines. Thanks again. Maybe someday Mozilla will fix it so an add-on is not required.

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They keep 'upgrading' the browser, breaking things in the process. After, someone tries to fix it with an add-on.

For us users, this really s**ks