Why does Firefox impose Google as a search engine in it's home page?

I've found Firefox to be very unstable when it comes to choosing a different home page & search engine, frequently ignoring my choices & reverting to the default settings between launches. This also applies to Google & the choice of language if it's different to that of the country the person's in, which is my main gripe with Google, it doesn't detect the language of the operating system but that of the geographical location, forcing one to alter the settings every time, which is extremely annoying! Please do something about all this if possible, thanks.

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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
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== This happened ==
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== Today ... 4th July, 2010

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*See --> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page
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'''If this reply solves your problem, please click "Solved It" next to this reply when signed-in to the forum.'''
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