Firefox 23, home screen search engine.

Apparently, Firefox 23 comes with a new feature that somewhat annoys me. It seems that home page search (in the middle of the screen) now always uses currently selected search engine from the search bar (top right).
How do I rever this? I want my home page to always search via Google, while having Wikipedia as my selected search engine in the search bar.
I am observing this on two of my computers, on the first one I did a fresh install of Firefox 23. When I noticed the strange behavior, I went to another one and ran an update from Firefox 22 to 23 - and now it behaves exactly the same. Annoying!

I have the same problem. This new feature is pretty annoying.
There is anything in about:config we can change to prevent the default engine to switch every time I change the selected engine?
Thanks
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