Add engines... not working in Firefox

When click the drop down G button on the search bar to Add engines such as other search engines, it pulls up a web page where you can click on a search engine to add.
When you click on the search engine you want you get the dialog box saying it is added, but it does not appear in the G button drop down list to choose, anybody have an idea how to fix that?
I've noticed this behavior through several Firefox versions in the mozilla-firefox package.
Thanks,
Craig

Run firefox as root to install engines. I don't know why, but it insists on installing them to the firefox directory in /opt; you'd think if a user tried to install them it'd install them to the home directory, but... no.
Dusty

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