Use Ecosia in Firefox

Making Ecosia your default search engine on desktop is easy. We recommend to download the Ecosia extension, using it will set your default search engine and homepage to Ecosia right away. Follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Firefox add-ons store and select Add to Firefox
  2. Confirm that you want to download Ecosia
  3. Open a new tab in your Firefox browser and accept changes
  4. Ecosia is now your default search engine in Firefox
Screenshot Firefox add-ons-store with Ecosia
Step 1: Add the Ecosia extensions to Firefox using an add-on
Screenshot of Step 2: Confirmation to switch to Ecosia
Step 2: Confirmation to switch to Ecosia
Screenshot of Step 3: Confirm switch of default search engine
Step 3: Confirm switch of default search engine

Need further assistance? Check out these instructions by Mozilla.


Alternatively, you can make Ecosia your browser’s homepage. Find out how to change your homepage in Firefox.

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