Mozilla Firefox now lets you to select search engine on private browsing mode

Mozilla is now planning to provide a separate search engine for private browsing in the Firefox browser, just like the Vivaldi browser, meaning that when the feature is available, the user can select a search engine from the list of available engines and use it as the default privacy search engine. Previously, Firefox used a default search engine in both normal and private browsing modes. Private browsing is a special browsing mode, mainly to improve privacy and reduce remote site tracking users.

For example, if you use the Vivaldi browser because the company works with DuckDuckGo, use their engine as the default engine in the private window, and the user can change the required engine by setting.

Similarly, Mozilla plans to add an option to Firefox 71 to let users change the search engine in private browsing mode. Firefox users who don’t want to use the default search engine can set different search engines for private browsing mode in this way.

You can set up other search engines by visiting about:preferences#search in the address bar of your browser, or by clicking about:config: hamburger menu > Options > Search > Use this search engine in private windows. Users can choose from Google, Bing, Amazon.com, eBay, Twitter, and Wikipedia. Mozilla said it will provide privacy engine features to users in the release channel, not just beta/Developer/Nighly.

So far, Mozilla has not decided which one to use as the default search provider in anonymous mode. Now, Mozilla uses Google as the default search engine for Firefox browsers in most countries, because most of the company’s revenue comes from search transactions, but it is exploring other premium services/products, such as Firefox Private Network to increase their income.

Source: techdows