I found this page that says they removed that feature on mobile for some reason (ugh,) but if you scroll down there's a possible workaround that may work for your purposes. You could swap out the Firefox shortcut on their home screen with an 'open Google(.)com in Firefox' shortcut.
I really hope that there is a logical reason for Mozilla's stupid choices. Because I can't think of one.
You could swap out the Firefox shortcut on their home screen with an 'open Google(.)com in Firefox' shortcut.
That's what I will do.
I believe, they basically re-implemented Android Firefox when that feature fell under the bus. Their previous architecture was incredibly laggy on Android, so that's why they pretty much had to start over...
Yup, I remember the first Firefox for Android. Rough times. Nice black interface, but clunky. The new one is butter and by far the best browser for Android
Go to any site (eg weather). In hamburger menu (bottom right) select Add To Home Screen. Launch Firefox using that Home Screen icon.
You can explain them google is already integrated, they can use the address bar to type their query and hit enter to ask Google whatever they want.
I already did. And they "don't like" it. They want to see the Google logo for some reason.
My father also couldn’t digest this information. I chose to pick my battles and let him keep doing it his way because there’s a limited amount of influence I could spend.
I use a completely blank opening page with a search bar on it.
i believe you can do that in desktop firefox. sadly, idk about the android version
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