


“After upgrading to Firefox 98, a notification will appear at the top of the browser, alerting you that your default search engine has changed. We provided an opportunity to previously-included search engines to sign an agreement and the engines that did not complete the agreement will be removed from Firefox,” Mozilla explains.

“This change is happening because Mozilla was unable to secure formal permission to continue including certain search engines in Firefox. Mozilla already supports the majority of search engines out there, so in theory, even if your preferred option would no longer be enabled by default, it will continue to be available in Firefox 98. On the other hand, they will still be allowed to enable whatever search engine they want, though the whole thing needs to be performed manually. In other words, some users who will install the new version of the browser may notice that the default search engine would be different. Firefox 98 will launch with a new default search engine for some users, parent company Mozilla announced, pretty much because the existing partnerships with certain providers were not renewed.
