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    Totally brand new here so sorry if i sound like i'm from mars.

    any way i can use google as my default search engin instead of bing

    and Chrome as my default browser on boxee?

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    No not possible. we don't have those apps in the boxee. The browser is good and advanced.

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    But you can still use the google search engine just like any other web page, by starting the boxee web browser and entering the google.com address in it. And in Boxee's new firmware v1.5 you can then also save the main google search page as a shortcut/bookmark, to make the access quicker in future. (That's what I've done.)

    Best regards: Ronald
    Last edited by Ronald; January 29th, 2012 at 07:18 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronald View Post
    But you can still use the google search engine just like any other web page, by starting the boxee web browser and entering the google.com address in it. And in Boxee's new firmware v1.5 you can then also save the main google search page as a shortcut/bookmark, to make the access quicker in future. (That's what I've done.)

    Best regards: Ronald
    thanks ! that works.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronald View Post
    But you can still use the google search engine just like any other web page, by starting the boxee web browser and entering the google.com address in it. And in Boxee's new firmware v1.5 you can then also save the main google search page as a shortcut/bookmark, to make the access quicker in future. (That's what I've done.)

    Best regards: Ronald
    Still rather annoying, to need to change page to do a search. I hope M$ is at least paying Boxee a TON of cash to be the default. Else I doubt it's worth the pain this causes Boxee customers.

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    Yes, the PAIN, it's UNBEARABLE. Having to select google.com from my list of saved favorites, it HURTS, it HURTS!

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    Kids today! When I was a kid, we had to walk 14 miles uphill both ways to change search engines!

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