Replacing Google search on LinuxMint

I was sick of LinuxMint's hack on Firefox's search results page. And every time I fix it, the next update to Firefox replaces my fixed doc with the default one, which just sucks :(

So here's a script that I run after every update to Firefox:

cd /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/firefox/
sudo wget http://mxr.mozilla.org/firefox/source/browser/locales/en-US/searchplugins/google.xml?raw=1 -O google.xml.fixed
sudo mv google.xml google.xml.orig
sudo mv google.xml.fixed google.xml

Enabling right-click in GMail

For the record...

I recently switched to Linux Mint, and ever since then I right-clicks in GMail on my firefox had stopped working.


Disabling all the labs feature fixed the problem, so I started hunting for the specific offending labs feature.

In the end it turned out to be the 'Mouse gestures' feature. Since I don't use that feature at all, it was easy to just turn it off, and voila, my Firefox+GMail is back to normalcy.