I wanted to try Qwant as a search engine, but it takes over Firefox's start page. Configuring the start page is no longer possible while the extension is active.

Right after installing it changes my homepage setting in Firefox - withou any question and without ability to revert. The only way to restore homepage was to dissable the extension... Thi "feature" makes the whole extension useless.

The first impression was promising but after installing the addon Qwant gave itself the permission to change my startpage without my consent and there is no way to disable this. That's unacceptable and quite fishy for a search engine that 'respects' my privacy. Going back to DuckDuckGo.

Some time after installing, it changed my homepage without my consent! When I go to Settings > Home, I'm not able to input my previous or new homepage url - they're all greyed out with a message underneath:
"An extension, Qwant, is controlling your home page."
The only way to restore your homepage or change it appears to be by disabling or uninstalling this extension!!!

I've sent an abuse report to Mozilla about this addon. Uninstalling this right now and sticking to DuckDuckGo.

On installing Qwant, it made itself my main search engine - without my consent!

I used this search engine for a few minutes, but found that I could only choose 'english for the interface display, and not the actual searches that came back!

Why is that not an option?! ... french, dutch and german were choices, but not english.

After that experience, I uninstalled the Qwant extension, it prompted me to submit a reason why I was uninstalling. I was told that my few lines of explaination was 'too long' (max is 255 characters) ...ok fine, so I gave up, totally ridiculous!

Once uninstalled, I noticed that my startup homepage and tabs had been deleted! ... I had 5 tabs that open on firefox start-up, after uninstalling Qwant they had been deleted.

What a pathetic attempt, get a grip Qwant .. do you even think about your users?

- these are important and annoying inconveniences, and they are not even being addressed.

changing your home page and controlling it sucks. Ask people in Hong Kong. Control sucks. Its a no brainer. Use Duck Duck Go,it respects your browser

Page par défaut de firefox pointe obligatoirement sur Qwant (impossible à changer sans désactiver l'extension).
Et même si on se connecte à son compte Qwant dans l'extension, çà n'est pas répercuté sur le site (on doit se connecter à nouveau...).
Je supprime cette extension, c'est une catastrophe.

Obligé d'enlever l’extension car je veux juste avoir Qwant en moteur de recherche par défaut. Pas avoir la page d'accueil. Je n'arrive plus à supporter de voir les "Hot trends", trop déconcentrant. Et des fois je me laisse aller et donc je retrouve sur des sites qui n'ont aucun respect de la vie privé. Donc ça porte atteinte à la mission que s'est donnée Qwant.

Bien que j'apprécie Qwant en général, j'ai eu besoin de changer la page d'accueil de firefox, et là, bon courage ! Même après désinstallation de l'extension, firefox est toujours forcé de mettre cette page... J'ai fini par trouver une solution que je partage pour ceux qui se retrouveraient dans le même cas que moi : il faut rebouter firefox : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings. Mon impression générale sur qwant en a pris un coup...

Merde, il change la page par défaut à sa. Never install that shit

Qwant est très bien mais change la page de démarrage. Je ne veux pas et il n'y a pas d'option pour ne pas le faire. Très déçu!!

Impossible d'ajouter un favoris (extension installée)
Aucune aide en ligne trouvée
Les résultats sont affichés sur la moitié de l'écran, le reste est blanc
Pas envie de continuer à essuyer les plâtres

Forcing your startpage on me is a no-go! While I like qwant, I had to deinstall it.

Forcing the startup page behavior and having a new search engine are two different things.

Please stop forcing the default tab with your extension.

The ads with LCL on startup is ruining your reputation.

Sadly this forces to use qwant as a startpage without an option to disable it.
I'd love to just use the search engine and keep my default startpage.

Add-on is unusabel - it forces to use qwant as startpage. I only wanted qwant for firefox search.
Qwant itself as searchengine is very good!

The addon changes the start page of Firefox to Qwant. This is unnecessary if you only want to use the search engine, but cannot be disabled.

Qwant only gets one star because it changes my home page to qwant. Why? If I can not keep my home page, qwant is not an option.

Somebody else explained how to add quant without installing the extension. 5 stars for that person. Like that person, my rating is for the extension, not the search engine.

More than 560 KB for a search plugin is a joke. This adds a lot of unnecessary functionality: A toolbar icon (who needs that?), context menu entries (anyone using that?), access to the tracking protection setting that you can also change in the normal prefs... and even with all of that, I don't see why it needs far over 500 KB, it should need less than 50 KB.

Here's how you get the same functionality as OpenSearch plugin w/o that stupid extension:
Make sure no Qwant extension is installed, customize your toolbar, make sure the search field is visible, open Qwant search in your browser, the search bar shows a little green + button on the magnifying glass, click it, it offers you to add Qwant as a search engine, select that, and you are done (all it installs is a 10 KB XML file!!!). Now you can remove the search field from your toolbar again if you don't like to have one.

PS: This is no rating of the search engine Qwant, this is just a rating for this extension! I like the search engine but I dislike a bloated extension for something as simple as a custom search.