On #1, you can check the site-specific cookie setting using the Permissions panel of the Page Info dialog. When you are on the page, you can open that dialog using either: * right-click the page > View Page Info > Permissions * click the padlock or globe icon in the address bar > More Information > Permissions Skim or scroll down to "Set Cookies" to make sure it is not set to Block. If that is okay, some other random thoughts: * Are you using the site in a private browsing window? * Do you recall disabling DOM storage, which sites sometimes use instead of cookies to store large blobs of data (Firefox controls access to DOM storage using your cookie setting for the site)? On #2, your default search engine should not have changed. To change it to Google, you can use the icon on the left end of the search bar (the classic small search box that appears on the toolbar). Please see: [[Search bar - add, change and manage search engines on Firefox]]. I don't think there is any connection between #2 and #1.