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Why won't the DuckDuckGo search engine extension added in Firefox show in my search engine list?

Why won't the DuckDuckGo search engine extension added in Firefox show in my search engine list?

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What instructions did you use to make it part of the search engine?

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jeffndebg said

Why won't the DuckDuckGo search engine extension added in Firefox show in my search engine list?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-settings-firefox

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Note that on most locales DDG should be one of the default search engines. Do you see this search engine listed on the "Help -> More Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page ?


If clearing the "Restore Default Search Engines" on the "Settings -> Search" page doesn't work, try to rename/remove search.json.mozlz4 in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed to rebuild the search engines registry.

You can use the button on the "Help -> More Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page (Root directory).

Firefox will rebuild search.json.mozlz4 from the built-in search engines.