

ECOSIA EXTENSION FIREFOX INSTALL
How can I make sure I'm searching with Ecosia? The month of May has been a good one at Ecosia not least because Firefox chose our trusty browser extension as a featured add-on Users looking for informed recommendations about which Firefox add-ons to install will find Ecosia listed among the browser’s best. You can read more about it (technical text) here. Unfortunately, this didn't only affect malicious software providers, but also legitimate alternative search engines like Ecosia. To prevent this, Firefox applied restrictions and made Google the default search engine. This is the official reason: in the past there were more ways to change the default search engine for Firefox, but this was abused by malicious software providers.

In some cases users were notified, but in many more they weren't informed about these changes. With the release of Version 57.0.1, Firefox changed the default search engine for a lot of users back to Google. Why did Firefox change my default search engine without asking me?
