change search engine on about:home page to startpage or ixquick
Change the default search engine in about:home to duckduckgo works perfect for me. I changed in the about:config settings the value browser.search.defaultenginename from "Google" to "DuckDuckGo". But when I change the value to "Startpage HTTPS - Deutsch" or "Ixquick HTTPS - Deutsch" it didn't work. Can somebody help me?
Thanks lemon_grass
Endret
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Can you reproduce this in firefox aurora? I think this is fixed in v24.
Endret
If you select the default search engine for the search bar to this (installed) search engine then you should be able to see how Firefox identifies a specific search engine.
This is exactly what I did to identify the firefox name for the search engines.
I tried v25 and there it works perfect!
@Waka_... But it took me almost over two hours till I got aurora worked on any of my OS's. For me, somebody who never had something to do with firefox aurora, this is much more difficult than change a search engine.
First I didn't found the x86_64 Version of Aurora for Linux, then I tried it on Win7 32bit. There the installation file asked me for an user "administrator" with password. But I have no user called "administrator". I have my user "XXX" with admin rights but it didn't worked. I don't know why. After while I tried it again on Mint and so on, and so on ...
What I want to say, next time please post a link to a tutorial, when you say to somebody "try it with aurora"
I really appreciate your help! This is only my answer because I don't want that this happens to somebody else.
thanks lemon_grass
Endret
Hi lemon_grass, sorry to hear about your troubles. I think it's a case of bad timing. Firefox 23 released today, so Beta bumped up to 24 and Aurora bumped up to 25.
If I understand correctly, I think this change is actually in Firefox 23: about home uses the search engine selected in the search bar.
its working in ff23!
Here is what I did and worked for me: Firefox help Troubleshooting Information Click Reset Firefox
Now my search engine is Google..... As far as I know reseting did not affect any of my settings All my bookmarks are there. Try it