How to change the default search engine of the Tor Browser
The processes required to change the default search engine of Tor Browser are listed below:
1) Launch the Tor Browser browser.
2) On the right hand side, click on open menu and Click on Options.
3) On the left hand corner, click on Search
4) You will see default search engine, make a choice between either Google, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, eBay, twitter or Wikipedia.
Hope with this you have been able to learn how to change the default search engine of Tor Browser.
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w w says
2-26-19 running win10-TOTALLY up to date on ALL apps. Been using/reading up on TOR which is now using DuckDuckGo for search engine….have followed the script above (trying DDG Onion & startpage} but the engine stays locked on DDG at restart—-what else need I do to get it to swap to another one?
dineshkumar says
thanks a lot this have been really helpful. Thank you.
John says
What if I want to use Yandex.com as my search engine?
Timothy says
You can add it. Thanks
Paul West says
The selection of search engines provided by Tor is completely inadequate,with all of them providing tainted results – including the now discredited Duckduckgo. There needs to be either a more comprehensive selection, or an open field so that users can select any search engine of their choice.
Timothy says
Thanks for the great input.
Please check out how to add search engines to tor