It’s annoying as shit
Never seen this. Do you have some kind of browser extension or malware?
I think I only have usual extensions, uBlock Origin etc.
Run a malware scan. This isn’t normal behavior as far as I’m aware.
Only when I reinstall not update
Do you still have the Google search engine added? I always fully remove it, since Searx pulls from Google anyways, I don’t really see the point in keeping it.
Nope, never happened to me in 10+ years of usage, except when completely reinstalling after wiping everything.
Interesting. I did a quick search and found these old threads: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/firefox-82-0-2-sets-search-engines-back-to-default/35847/16, https://forum.manjaro.org/t/firefox-keeps-resetting-search-engines-on-manjaro/49260/4. These people have a similar problem, also on manjaro. I don’t want to investigate any further tbh.