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bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines
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Mark H Weaver |
Subject: |
bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:18:03 -0400 |
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ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
> Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.1K bytes:
>> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
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>> > 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.
On my GuixSD system, I just tried the following:
* Quit IceCat, and wait for the process to really be gone.
* Move ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla-OLD.
* Restart IceCat.
and I found that DuckDuckGo was the default search engine.
I'm not sure what you did, but I suspect that you had a ~/.mozilla
directory in place where Google was configured to be the default search
engine.
Mark
- 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, ng0, 2017/09/18
- bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines,
Mark H Weaver <=
- 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