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Ubuntu preinstalled laptop: How to change the default search engine and home page in Firefox?

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I have a new Dell Ubuntu pre-installed laptop. It came with 11.10 and I've just upgraded it to 12.04 (Precise).

Firefox has its homepage set to Yahoo search and the default search engine is Yahoo too. I want to change the home page and the default search engine. Every time I change this, the settings do not stick until the next time I start the browser again.

There don't seem to be any such settings that I can change in Edit->Preferences. (It does not stick until the next startup of the browser if I change the homepage in the Preferences/General tab).

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answered 2 Years ago allally · Accepted Answer

I just found the fix. The Dell preinstalled Ubuntu comes with a package called yahoo-default-settings. This is a locally installed package and does not seem to be present in a repository (neither in Ubuntu official repository nor Dell partner repository).

Just uninstall the package. Then, one can change the defaults and it sticks till the next start of the browser.