mint & Google

In the Firefox that comes with Mint, there is a customized Google search — unusual and inconvenient. And I couldn’t disable it the standard way — you can only remove it entirely, but then there’s no way to add it back. I found somewhere (don’t remember the source anymore, but very grateful to that person) an XML file that needs to be dropped in place of the built-in one, like this cp ~/google.xml /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/google.xml because on top of that, every damn Firefox update shoves its own search plugin back in again