diff --git a/ui/StatusQ/src/assets/png/browser/compass.png b/ui/StatusQ/src/assets/png/browser/compass.png
deleted file mode 100644
index 929ace29efe..00000000000
Binary files a/ui/StatusQ/src/assets/png/browser/compass.png and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/ui/StatusQ/src/assets/png/browser/pepehand.png b/ui/StatusQ/src/assets/png/browser/pepehand.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e32f23925e5
Binary files /dev/null and b/ui/StatusQ/src/assets/png/browser/pepehand.png differ
diff --git a/ui/StatusQ/src/assets/png/png.qrc b/ui/StatusQ/src/assets/png/png.qrc
index 00d4161f611..78ee056d3d6 100644
--- a/ui/StatusQ/src/assets/png/png.qrc
+++ b/ui/StatusQ/src/assets/png/png.qrc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <RCC>
     <qresource prefix="/assets/png">
-        <file>browser/compass.png</file>
         <file>browser/chooseBrowserImage@2x.png</file>
+        <file>browser/pepehand.png</file>
         <file>community/airdrops8_1.png</file>
         <file>community/mint2_1.png</file>
         <file>community/permissions2_3.png</file>
diff --git a/ui/app/AppLayouts/Browser/views/BrowserWebEngineView.qml b/ui/app/AppLayouts/Browser/views/BrowserWebEngineView.qml
index 0845089b9b3..24ff010744a 100644
--- a/ui/app/AppLayouts/Browser/views/BrowserWebEngineView.qml
+++ b/ui/app/AppLayouts/Browser/views/BrowserWebEngineView.qml
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ WebEngineView {
 
             Image {
                 id: emptyPageImage
-                source: Theme.png("browser/compass")
+                source: Theme.png("browser/pepehand")
                 width: 294
                 height: 294
                 anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
diff --git a/ui/imports/utils/SearchEnginesConfig.qml b/ui/imports/utils/SearchEnginesConfig.qml
index 8311388acb5..4b4291da9d3 100644
--- a/ui/imports/utils/SearchEnginesConfig.qml
+++ b/ui/imports/utils/SearchEnginesConfig.qml
@@ -7,14 +7,13 @@ QtObject {
 
     readonly property int browserSearchEngineNone: 0
     readonly property int browserSearchEngineDuckDuckGo: 1
-    readonly property int browserSearchEngineBrave: 2
-    readonly property int browserSearchEngineQwant: 3
-    readonly property int browserSearchEngineStartpage: 4
-    readonly property int browserSearchEngineMojeek: 5
-    readonly property int browserSearchEngineEcosia: 6
-    readonly property int browserSearchEngineBing: 7
-    readonly property int browserSearchEngineGoogle: 8
-    readonly property int browserSearchEngineCustom: 9
+    readonly property int browserSearchEngineQwant: 2
+    readonly property int browserSearchEngineStartpage: 3
+    readonly property int browserSearchEngineMojeek: 4
+    readonly property int browserSearchEngineEcosia: 5
+    readonly property int browserSearchEngineBing: 6
+    readonly property int browserSearchEngineGoogle: 7
+    readonly property int browserSearchEngineCustom: 8
 
     readonly property ListModel engines: ListModel {
         ListElement {
@@ -32,56 +31,49 @@ QtObject {
             urlTemplate: "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%1"
         }
         ListElement {
-            engineId: 2  // browserSearchEngineBrave
-            name: "Brave Search"
-            description: ""
-            iconUrl: "search_engines/brave_search"
-            urlTemplate: "https://search.brave.com/search?q=%1"
-        }
-        ListElement {
-            engineId: 3  // browserSearchEngineQwant
+            engineId: 2  // browserSearchEngineQwant
             name: "Qwant"
             description: ""
             iconUrl: "search_engines/qwant"
             urlTemplate: "https://www.qwant.com/?q=%1"
         }
         ListElement {
-            engineId: 4  // browserSearchEngineStartpage
+            engineId: 3  // browserSearchEngineStartpage
             name: "Startpage"
             description: ""
             iconUrl: "search_engines/starpage"
             urlTemplate: "https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?q=%1"
         }
         ListElement {
-            engineId: 5  // browserSearchEngineMojeek
+            engineId: 4  // browserSearchEngineMojeek
             name: "Mojeek"
             description: ""
             iconUrl: "search_engines/mojeek"
             urlTemplate: "https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=%1"
         }
         ListElement {
-            engineId: 6  // browserSearchEngineEcosia
+            engineId: 5  // browserSearchEngineEcosia
             name: "Ecosia"
             description: ""
             iconUrl: "search_engines/ecosia"
             urlTemplate: "https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=%1"
         }
         ListElement {
-            engineId: 7  // browserSearchEngineBing
+            engineId: 6  // browserSearchEngineBing
             name: "Bing"
             description: ""
             iconUrl: "search_engines/bing"
             urlTemplate: "https://www.bing.com/search?q=%1"
         }
         ListElement {
-            engineId: 8  // browserSearchEngineGoogle
+            engineId: 7  // browserSearchEngineGoogle
             name: "Google"
             description: ""
             iconUrl: "search_engines/google"
             urlTemplate: "https://www.google.com/search?q=%1"
         }
         ListElement {
-            engineId: 9  // browserSearchEngineCustom
+            engineId: 8  // browserSearchEngineCustom
             name: qsTr("Custom")
             description: qsTr("Plug in your own search engine that follows the OpenSearch URL format")
             iconUrl: "search_engines/custom"
@@ -98,25 +90,37 @@ QtObject {
         return null
     }
 
-    function getEngineName(engineId) {
+    function getEngineByIdOrDefault(engineId) {
         const engine = getEngineById(engineId)
+        if (!engine) {
+            console.warn("SearchEnginesConfig: Invalid engine ID", engineId, "- using DuckDuckGo as default")
+            return getEngineById(browserSearchEngineDuckDuckGo)
+        }
+        return engine
+    }
+
+    function isValidEngineId(engineId) {
+        return getEngineById(engineId) !== null
+    }
+
+    function getEngineName(engineId) {
+        const engine = getEngineByIdOrDefault(engineId)
         return engine ? engine.name : qsTr("None")
     }
 
     function getEngineDescription(engineId) {
-        const engine = getEngineById(engineId)
+        const engine = getEngineByIdOrDefault(engineId)
         return engine ? engine.description : ""
     }
 
     function formatSearchUrl(engineId, query, customUrl) {
-        const engine = getEngineById(engineId)
+        const engine = getEngineByIdOrDefault(engineId)
         if (!engine) {
-            console.warn("SearchEnginesConfig: Engine not found for id:", engineId)
             return ""
         }
         
         // Custom: append query to the custom URL prefix
-        if (engineId === browserSearchEngineCustom) {
+        if (engine.engineId === browserSearchEngineCustom) {
             if (!customUrl || customUrl === "") {
                 console.warn("SearchEnginesConfig: Custom search engine selected but no URL configured")
                 return ""