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I'm trying to set Google as the search engine for Firefox. Unfortunately, even though I'm selecting that option in the wizard, and even manually entering it into the configuration text, it still defaults to Yahoo.

Some internet sleuthing indicates that this might be "as designed" from Firefox, that you can no longer "administratively" configure the search engine starting with version 45. Is this true, or has anyone found a way around this to force the search engine back to being Google?

Hello CMGeorge,

For some reason (still not sure why) it happens when you set the timezone to 'US/Eastern'. Please set it to specific city and it should default to Google, e.g: Thank you.

fanthom wrote:Hello CMGeorge,

For some reason (still not sure why) it happens when you set the timezone to 'US/Eastern'. Please set it to specific city and it should default to Google, e.g:

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timezone=America/New_York

Thank you.

My time zone is set to America/Chicago. It still does it.

You are right - i have set this parameter to 'timezone=Etc/GMT+6' and it still defaults to Yahoo.

There are two workarounds:
1) remove 'timezone=' parameter completely and set the time through the PC BIOS
2) switch the browser to Chrome

Optionally i could create a custom build with Google search engine forced (i would remove other engines from the ISO):
http://porteus-kiosk.org/builds.html

Thank you.