My school has about 200 computers with Windows7/Windows10Ĭombined in a windows domain. chrome-extension youtube vimeo google yandex reddit bing duckduckgo yahoo startpage firefox-extension dailymotion patreon safesearch dogpile family. I'm kinda desperate by now, so any approach is welcome. Sets the built-in adult content filter (most often: safe search) on Google, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Dogpile, Yandex, Vimeo, Reddit, Ecosia, Dailymotion, Qwant, and Patreon. Is there a way to add an extension and change the search engine of Firefox/Chrome/Edge without touching the user data or is there a way to preconfigure installers to include a different standard search engine?
Firefox alone is driving me crazy.īut there must be a way to achieve this as many viruses doing search hijacking change your search engine without problems event though i was not able to find any source code of those. I want to change the search preferences in Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Some of the other options to deploy custom Firefox installers in companies included preinstalled extensions but I haven't found a configuration that included the search engine configuration. (Otherwise I could just overwrite the users Firefox profiles) Adding the extension seems to be no problem.Īlso I can not change anything in the user files as they are not saved locally but on the domain controller. My easiest option would be to deploy a script to modify the Firefox(Chrome/Edge) installation but didn't find a way to change the configured search engine.
If one wants to change his search engine to Ecosia on his home computer with Firefox he needs to add the extension to his Firefox profile and change his default search engine to the then added option "Ecosia"īut it is hard to do this for every user in our Windows domain automatically.
In March 2018, Firefox 59.0 added Ecosia as a search engine option for. I want every workstation in my school to have Ecosia as their default search engine. Ecosia is a search engine based in Berlin, Germany.