diff --git a/src/components/modals/Settings.jsx b/src/components/modals/Settings.jsx
index a7561214..f5f56d15 100644
--- a/src/components/modals/Settings.jsx
+++ b/src/components/modals/Settings.jsx
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ export default class Settings extends React.PureComponent {
       document.getElementById('searchEngine').style.color = 'white';
       document.getElementById('language').style.color = 'white';
       document.getElementById('greetingName').style.color = 'white';
+      const choices = document.getElementsByClassName('choices');
+      for (let i = 0; i < choices.length; i++) choices[i].style.backgroundColor = '#2f3542';
     }
   }
 
@@ -170,8 +172,8 @@ export default class Settings extends React.PureComponent {
             <label htmlFor='8'>{this.props.language.background.API} </label>
             <label className='dropdown'>
               <select className='select-css' name='8' id='backgroundAPI' onChange={() => localStorage.setItem('backgroundAPI', document.getElementById('backgroundAPI').value)}>
-                <option value='mue'>Mue</option>
-                <option value='unsplash'>Unsplash</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='mue'>Mue</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='unsplash'>Unsplash</option>
                 { /* <option value='custom'>Custom</option> */ }
               </select>
             </label>
@@ -208,15 +210,15 @@ export default class Settings extends React.PureComponent {
             <ul>
             <label htmlFor='4'>{this.props.language.searchbar.searchengine} </label>
               <select className='select-css' name='4' id='searchEngine' onChange={() => SettingsFunctions.setSearchEngine(document.getElementById('searchEngine').value)}>
-                <option value='duckduckgo'>DuckDuckGo</option>
-                <option value='google'>Google</option>
-                <option value='bing'>Bing</option>
-                <option value='yahoo'>Yahoo</option>
-                <option value='ecosia'>Ecosia</option>
-                <option value='yandex'>Yandex</option>
-                <option value='qwant'>Qwant</option>
-                <option value='ask'>Ask</option>
-                <option value='startpage'>Startpage</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='duckduckgo'>DuckDuckGo</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='google'>Google</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='bing'>Bing</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='yahoo'>Yahoo</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='ecosia'>Ecosia</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='yandex'>Yandex</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='qwant'>Qwant</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='ask'>Ask</option>
+                <option class='choices' value='startpage'>Startpage</option>
                {/* <option value='custom'>Custom</option> */}
               </select>
             </ul>
diff --git a/src/components/modals/Update.jsx b/src/components/modals/Update.jsx
index 42574062..6afe7031 100644
--- a/src/components/modals/Update.jsx
+++ b/src/components/modals/Update.jsx
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export default class Update extends React.PureComponent {
         <h1 style={{ 'marginBottom':'-10px' }} dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: this.state.title}}></h1>
         <h5 style={{ 'lineHeight':'0px' }}> By {this.state.author} • {this.state.date}</h5>
         <img draggable='false' src={this.state.image} alt='Update'></img>
-        <p dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: this.state.content + `<br/><p>Read on the blog here: <a href='${this.state.url}'>${this.state.url}</a></p>`}}></p>
+        <p dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: this.state.content + `<br/><p>Read on the blog here: <a target='_blank' href='${this.state.url}'>${this.state.url}</a></p>`}}></p>
       </div>;
     }
 }
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diff --git a/src/components/widgets/Maximise.jsx b/src/components/widgets/Maximise.jsx
index eb5ae1db..1aa7abf9 100644
--- a/src/components/widgets/Maximise.jsx
+++ b/src/components/widgets/Maximise.jsx
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ export default class View extends React.PureComponent {
   viewStuff() {
     const elements = ['#searchBar', '.navbar-container', '.clock', '.greeting', '.quotediv'];
     elements.forEach(element => {
-        (this.state.hidden === false) ?  document.querySelector(element).style.display = 'none' : document.querySelector(element).style.display = 'block';
+        try {
+            (this.state.hidden === false) ?  document.querySelector(element).style.display = 'none' : document.querySelector(element).style.display = 'block';
+        } catch (e) {
+            return;
+        }
     });
     if (this.state.hidden === false) {
         this.setState({ hidden: true });