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by Niten 4112 days ago
It uses whatever search engine you have configured in Firefox. When I tried it a minute ago on my Nexus, this defaulted to Yahoo.

This is unequivocally Mozilla code you're observing. Here's what adb logcat shows when that activity starts:

    I/ActivityManager(29188): START u0 {act=android.intent.action.ASSIST flg=0x13000000 cmp=org.mozilla.firefox/org.mozilla.search.SearchActivity (has extras)}
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arcfor 4112 days ago
Not for me. Mine only allows Google. Maybe because I'm using a custom default search engine? If so, it should just use my custom one, and should obviously give me a choice regardless.
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Niten 4112 days ago
This may also be a bug in the Firefox app: I've just observed that when I change my default search engine in Firefox, that setting isn't necessarily reflected in the search intent handler until after I force stop Firefox.

Either way, to reiterate, it's definitely Firefox you're seeing here. If you don't like the way it behaves, I recommend following the other suggestions on this thread to file a bug report with Mozilla.

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chimeracoder 4111 days ago
This is a bug in Firefox. I noticed it when 36 was first refused, and I'm pretty sure there's an open ticket about it.

Change your default search engine to something else and back again, and you'll notice that the widget updates.

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