Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.1K bytes: > ng0 <[email protected]> writes: > > > Mark H Weaver transcribed 0.4K bytes: > >> > >> ng0 <[email protected]> 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 > -- ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://krosos.org/dist/keys/ https://www.infotropique.org https://www.krosos.org
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