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bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines
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ng0 |
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bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines |
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Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:25:18 +0000 |
Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.1K bytes:
> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Mark H Weaver transcribed 0.4K bytes:
> >>
> >> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >> > Is this an upstream bug? Should we patch to remove Google?
> >> >
> >> > I've just compared a completely new system (and Icecat profile)
> >> > with my default profile, both include Google in search engines.
> >> >
> >> > There's also Bing and Yahoo, I'm not sure if all 3 were present
> >> > before this version.
> >>
> >> Why would it be considered a bug to give users the convenient option to
> >> use those search engines?
> >>
> >> Mark
> >
> > For example the branch of firefox which Parabola distributes
> > makes changes not to default to Google.
>
> Among the changes that GNU IceCat makes to Firefox ESR: it makes
> DuckDuckGo the default search engine. Last I checked, that was indeed
> the case for our IceCat package. Do you have reason to believe
> otherwise?
With a completely new system (had to set this up for testing Mate)
and guix package -i icecat (for the recent release) and no pre-existing
configuration, the default was Google, not DuckDuckGo.
> > People rarely change defaults, so we should give the option to use
> > Google but default to for example searx.me or duckduckgo.com.
>
> Agreed, and I think that's exactly what IceCat does. Please let me know
> if you think I'm mistaken about that.
>
> Mark
>
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- bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines, ng0, 2017/09/17
- bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines, Mark H Weaver, 2017/09/18
- bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines, ng0, 2017/09/18
- bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines, Mark H Weaver, 2017/09/18
- bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines,
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- bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines, Mark H Weaver, 2017/09/18
- bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines, Mark H Weaver, 2017/09/28
- bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines, ng0, 2017/09/29