diff -Naur QupZilla-1.6.1-orig/src/lib/app/qupzilla.cpp QupZilla-1.6.1/src/lib/app/qupzilla.cpp
--- QupZilla-1.6.1-orig/src/lib/app/qupzilla.cpp	2013-09-01 14:17:48.000000000 +0300
+++ QupZilla-1.6.1/src/lib/app/qupzilla.cpp	2013-11-06 12:49:37.402580712 +0200
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@
 
     //Url settings
     settings.beginGroup("Web-URL-Settings");
-    m_homepage = settings.value("homepage", "qupzilla:start").toUrl();
+    m_homepage = settings.value("homepage", "http://www.salixos.org/start").toUrl();
     settings.endGroup();
 
     QWebSettings* websettings = mApp->webSettings();
diff -Naur QupZilla-1.6.1-orig/src/lib/opensearch/searchenginesmanager.cpp QupZilla-1.6.1/src/lib/opensearch/searchenginesmanager.cpp
--- QupZilla-1.6.1-orig/src/lib/opensearch/searchenginesmanager.cpp	2013-09-01 14:17:48.000000000 +0300
+++ QupZilla-1.6.1/src/lib/opensearch/searchenginesmanager.cpp	2013-11-06 12:52:40.158186902 +0200
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@
 {
     Settings settings;
     settings.beginGroup("SearchEngines");
-    m_startingEngineName = settings.value("activeEngine", "Google").toString();
-    m_defaultEngineName = settings.value("DefaultEngine", "Google").toString();
+    m_startingEngineName = settings.value("activeEngine", "DuckDuckGo").toString();
+    m_defaultEngineName = settings.value("DefaultEngine", "DuckDuckGo").toString();
     settings.endGroup();
 
     connect(this, SIGNAL(enginesChanged()), this, SLOT(scheduleSave()));
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
     Engine duck;
     duck.name = "DuckDuckGo";
     duck.icon = QIcon(":/icons/sites/duck.png");
-    duck.url = "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=qupzilla";
+    duck.url = "https://duckduckgo.com/?kj=g&t=salix&q=%s";
     duck.shortcut = "d";
 
     Engine google;
diff -Naur QupZilla-1.6.1-orig/src/lib/preferences/preferences.cpp QupZilla-1.6.1/src/lib/preferences/preferences.cpp
--- QupZilla-1.6.1-orig/src/lib/preferences/preferences.cpp	2013-09-01 14:17:48.000000000 +0300
+++ QupZilla-1.6.1/src/lib/preferences/preferences.cpp	2013-11-06 12:53:30.158898385 +0200
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
     Settings settings;
     //GENERAL URLs
     settings.beginGroup("Web-URL-Settings");
-    m_homepage = settings.value("homepage", "qupzilla:start").toString();
+    m_homepage = settings.value("homepage", "http://www.salixos.org/start").toString();
     m_newTabUrl = settings.value("newTabUrl", "qupzilla:speeddial").toString();
     ui->homepage->setText(m_homepage);
     ui->newTabUrl->setText(m_newTabUrl);
diff -Naur QupZilla-1.6.1-orig/src/lib/webview/webpage.cpp QupZilla-1.6.1/src/lib/webview/webpage.cpp
--- QupZilla-1.6.1-orig/src/lib/webview/webpage.cpp	2013-09-01 14:17:48.000000000 +0300
+++ QupZilla-1.6.1/src/lib/webview/webpage.cpp	2013-11-06 12:54:17.400570008 +0200
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
         return new RecoveryWidget(qobject_cast<WebView*>(view()), p_QupZilla);
     }
     else {
-        mainFrame()->load(QUrl("qupzilla:start"));
+        mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.salixos.org/start"));
     }
 
     return 0;