Change search engine on about:home page to startpage or ixquick

Change the default search engine in about:home to duckduckgo works perfect for me. I changed in the about:config settings the value browser.search.defaultenginename from "Google" to "DuckDuckGo". But when I change the value to "Startpage HTTPS - Deutsch" or "Ixquick HTTPS - Deutsch" it didn't work.
Can somebody help me?
Thanks
lemon_grass

I tried v25 and there it works perfect!
@Waka_...
But it took me almost over two hours till I got aurora worked on any of my OS's. For me, somebody who never had something to do with firefox aurora, this is much more difficult than change a search engine.
First I didn't found the x86_64 Version of Aurora for Linux, then I tried it on Win7 32bit. There the installation file asked me for an user "administrator" with password. But I have no user called "administrator". I have my user "XXX" with admin rights but it didn't worked. I don't know why. After while I tried it again on Mint and so on, and so on ...
What I want to say, next time please post a link to a tutorial, when you say to somebody "try it with aurora"
I really appreciate your help! This is only my answer because I don't want that this happens to somebody else.
thanks
lemon_grass

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