Firefox issues - search engine

Support & Help Requests
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Hi.

I’ve just installed 16.10 and it looks and feels great. BUT with Firefox I can’t change my search engine. i have tried all i know but no joy. I want www.ixqiuck.com as my default engine but i have to be unhappily satisfied with the default mate.org engine.

how do i go about changing it?

thanks

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Hi @witblits, Are you confusing search engine with Home Page? The site https://start.ubuntu-mate.org/ is the default Ubuntu-MATE Home Page and it’s in Preferences under General.

However, default search engine is selected in Preferences under Search. This is the engine used for that little search box and Ubuntu-MATE has none.

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You sure that's even up? I get this when I click on your link:

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He mistyped it in the OP.

It should be:

https://www.ixquick.com/

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Bill_MI

erm yeah, i mean its the home page :smirk: i have changed the preferences endlessly yet it returns to the default home page. as for my typo yeah www.ixquick.com is correct, not my dodgy spelling www.ixqiuck.com site. this damn English language. thing is in all seriousness, how do i get to change the home page to my choice

thanks

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-set-the-home-page?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=How+to+set+the+home+page

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I thought I recalled this issue in 16.10 and looks like there's a workaround. I didn't explore further.

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