Firefox browser by default doesn't have a search engine or setup a search engine. The user themselves if they have specific search engine must setup a search page engine homepage for themselves. So not sure what other stuff there your seeing but default Firefox browser has no default search engine.

People are figuring out how this content makes it to the top of EVERY search, and we're not BUYING IT!!! People are leave Google /YourCensored Tube owing to their censorship and pushing billionaire globalist narratives. Companies like Rumble & X are the future! MAKE an open source, truly privacy minded search engine or PREPARE TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS. Because people are asking for it everywhere, notably on X!!! No more FAKE msm news stories. All the search engines offered on FireFox Suck! DuckDuck GO used to be good, but now it's like all the rest. Yandex looks to be one of the better options right now, but people are asking Elon Musk to do a real search engine.

You mean Republicans and Trumpers are not buying it and are falling for the conspiracy websites while the so called fake news sources being the actual truth in comparison and they do not like that. X is not better when people have been leaving X in droves to get away from Elon's pro-Trump echo chamber propaganda site since he took over. Yandex is not better when it is Russian controlled as they spread pro Kremlim propaganda.

Anyways you can add just about whatever search engine you want in Firefox 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

This site https://mycroftproject.com/ has a huge list of search engines options including the Russian controlled Yandex https://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=Yandex that you think is better.

You will find that Mozilla cares about peoples rights and privacy and getting real news to people so they can be informed about what is actually going on in the world as they help fight back against the misinformation. like for example https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/how-to-spot-real-fake-news/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/

@James "You mean Republicans and Trumpers", NO, that's not what I mean. Why do people assume they understand a free speech site, when they don't use it? Based on your comment your news comes from msm (mainstream media) news. MSM censors content, same with YouTube, some day might actually figure this out.

Here's an example. Have you heard about, probably the largest story coming from the UK, maybe ever, which started Jan 4th, 2025? I looked for it the last two days on msm news & did NOT see it, it's related to children.

A couple years ago they did the exact same thing with the "Twitter Files", but it's really like this every day, & week. MSM news censors content, just like YouTube, unfortunately most remain completely clueless. Furthermore they're actually afraid to look on X, owning to their indoctrination (msm). Yes, if you're afraid to look, then say no more.

And I could down the list naming off stories you never saw, but you would call them "conspiracy theories". Do you even know the organization that invented that word, & why they started using it? Sadly, you don't.

"people have been leaving X in droves", you don't know, do you? Of course you don't. It's usage has been going up monthly. "𝕏 now [is] the leading source of news ... It’s now no.1 in 140 countries"