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You may have noticed that when you use Firefox in LM11, the search engine goes to a Google custom search engine. This is one of the ways that the developers make money. However, the search engine lacks many features of the ‘default’ Google, and looks a lot worse. I have therefore made a basic shell script that allows you to fix the default search engines.

Instructions (Linux Mint 11)

1) Download and unzip the following file:

http://bbgamer.co.uk/dl/MintSearchFix.zip

2) In the MintSearchFix directory, right click and click ‘Open in Terminal’

3) In the terminal type ‘sudo ./mintsearchfix.sh’. (You may need to ‘chmod +x mintsearchfix.sh’)

4) Press enter.

If at any time you wish to restore the backup that the script makes, follow the above instructions but replace ‘./mintsearchfix.sh’ with ‘./restorebackup.sh’

Hopefully this helps anyone who is having that problem. Also, consider donating to the Linux Mint developers if you like what they’re doing. The Google search makes most of their profits.

If you have Linux Mint Debian Edition

Follow the above instructions however download this file instead of the one above:

http://www.bbgamer.co.uk/dl/LMDESF.zip