Windows 10: Nothing stops Bing search engine from reinstalling itself, and reactivating on browser

Hello all, I have been trying to switch to DuckDuckGo as my search engine, but no matter what I do, Edge browser keeps returning all searches with Bing results??I have gone into Settings>Privacy, Search and Services>Address Bar and Search then selected to completely Remove Bing from the list of browsers, and change my default to DuckDuckGo, but then when I close out the browser and reopen it, Bing is back, and once again the default search engine.I am confused by this and am wondering if this is some kind of virus that Microsoft coded into Windows 11, where you cannot possibly get away f

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Removing Bing as default search engine.

We appreciate the prompt response. In this case, let us check your browser settings and ensure that
Bing is removed as the default search engine. To do this, follow these steps:

• Open your Firefox browser.
• Click the Menu icon or the 3 bars icon.
• Select Options.
• Select Search.
• Under Default Search Engine, select your preferred search engine from the drop down list.
• Once you're done, close the search tab and check if the issue persists.

We'll appreciate if you can send us an update.

 

Bing search engine

Can someone please help me? I have just registered on here, at the suggestion of someone from Firefox help forums. I am a senior person (still working) I have some pc knowledge, but not to technical especially with in depth stuff.

My problem is I have FF as my default browser, with Google as my home page, everything was wine till about 72 hours ago. when i typed something into google results came up in google search, but now (and I have made no changes I dont dabble or touch settings because i do not understand them) all my search results are returned in bing instead of google, and I hate it.
I have tried resetting to default in firefox, Ive have manually removed Bing, from the search engine list that FF uses, it shows on that page that google is default search engine, but everything still comes up in bing. I saw online that cortania can have bing as they are both microsoft, so I found out how to disable cortania and remove what is held on me in the cloud, but no change.

Several suggestions from FF help forum have not stopped bing coming up, so the last thing that was suggested was as follows( I had to ask for simple to follow instructions)
went off line, then in url bar typed about:config, accepted the liabilty, by hitting the button, then in aboutcnfig search area typed in Bing, three lines came up that had the word Bing, so I right clicked each one then left clicked modify then changed the word bing for google, I then came out of it (as I was told) went back to my home page typed in luggage and a couple of other things, but still it came up in bing, so I went back and did the same process again about:config typed in bing again only this time the three lines did not appear, just a blank white page!!,

I then tried the next suggestion wich was looking at all the script down the left hand side of config was told to look in Browser search orders 1,2, 3, so this i did and what I saw was:
Browser search order 1 default string Google
-------"-----------"------------2 default string yahoo
---------"----------"-----------3 userset string Google ( this was in bold black letters)
then i looked in browser search orders
US.1 Default String data:text/plain browser,search.order.us.1 Yahoo
US .2 This was the same as above except last word was Google
US.3 Userset string Google (this was in bold black letters)
Then I looked and saw: Browser.search.selected engine user set string Google (this was also in bold black letters)

There you have my problem, all i want is rid of blasted bing from my pc, or at least my search results to come up in google. There is one thing I have noticed that before this issue when I searched in google then clicked the back button it rightly so went back to home page, but now what ever i type into google comes up in bing search results, but when you press the back button (top left) it stays on that search result page, and wont budge, so the only way back to googlw home page is by clicking the little house. Can you help me please, if so please keep instruction simple, many thanks.

 

Stop Bing appearing as default search engine

EdgeDeflector is only to allow your choice of a browser. Whenever Cortana or Windows attempts to launch Edge, EdgeDeflector redirects to your preferred browser.






Chrometana Pro is a replacement for Chrometana, an abandoned extension that would allow you to use your own Search engine.

Years ago, it was necessary to use both Chrometana & EdgeDeflector if you wanted to redirect to your preferred browser and also your preferred Search engine.

Marc Guiselin developed Chrometana Pro which incorporates the features of both Chrometana & EdgeDeflector into one Extension, no need to use EdgeDeflector anymore.


Chrometana Pro is available for Firefox or Chrome type browsers.

Also, I recall contacting Marc to obtain the correct syntax for other search engines that weren't listed, if you're using a non-standard preferred search engine.