
Searches made through Cortana or the taskbar search box will be automatically redirected from Bing search to Google now. When you get the following “How do you want to open this?” dialog, select Edge Deflector from the list. Step 5: Run the Edge Deflector setup and follow the on-screen directions. We need a little utility named Edge Deflector to force the Cortana use the default web browser instead of the built-in Edge browser. Here is why? Foxtana Pro alone cannot force the Cortana or the Start search to use Google search instead of Bing. Step 4: Now that you installed Foxtana Pro add-on, you need to install another small utility on your PC. Click the Add to Firefox button, and then click Add button to get the add-on installed on your Firefox. Step 3: On your Firefox browser, head over to this Foxtana Pro page. Step 2: In the Web browser section, click on the plus (+) icon (or click on the Edge/current default browser’s icon) and then click on the Firefox browser to make Firefox as the default one.

To do that, navigate to Windows 10’s Settings app > Apps > Default apps page.

Step 1: First of all, you need to set Firefox as the default browser in Windows 10 to make this guide work. With the help of Foxtana Pro we can set Google as the default search engine for the taskbar/Start search in Windows 10. Method 1 of 2 Use Foxtana Pro to force taskbar web search to use Google instead of Bingįoxtana Pro is a free add-on for Firefox to redirect web searches from Bing to Google or any other search engine that you prefer using.
