Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1
Severity: normal
There are following system-wide searchplugins installed in
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins:
amazondotcom.src
answers.src
creativecommons.src
debsearch.src
eBay.src
google.src
wikipedia.src
yahoo.src
Some of these plugins are not suitable for international distribution
and are useless for many non-american users. In particular:
* amazondotcom - promotes an online shop, specializing in
U.S. book titles in English and Spanish language; limited
usefulness for people outside of the U.S.;
* answers - service oriented on English-speaking audience only;
* creativecommons.org - produces yahoo CC-search results in
English language.
* ebay - promotes commercial service with limited geographical
availability
* wikipedia - searches en.wikipedia.org only, does not search
for anything in non-English sections of the Wikipedia.
These plugins are forced for *all* users of the firefox, without respect
of their localization settings, and they stay always on the top of the
list of search plugins.
In addition, regular users cannot uninstall these search plugins from
their firefox, as they are not in their $HOME. Any custom search
plugins, installed by regular users, appear below these forced plugins.
Most of these plugins are not suitable for the firefox package and
should be part of some firefox-locale-[a-z][a-z] packages.
My personal opinion is that google, yahoo and debsearch are the only
three search plugins which may stay in /usr/share/firefox/searchplugins.
Debsearch is a vital part of the Debian project, Google and Yahoo! are
the leading search engines with a good support of international users.
About wikipedia and creativecommons I am not sure. These plugins produce
search results in English language, but the projects are quite
international. Probably, for wikipedia a search plugin which searches
Google with "site:wikipedia.org" woulde be a nice substitution.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.3
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.2.2-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-5 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-3 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.18-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.6-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-1+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-8 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxp6 1:1.0.0.xsf1-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
firefox recommends no packages.
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