On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:20:23 -0400,
> Al Dunsmuir wrote:
>>
>> Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use,
>> not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes.
>
> Nor for Mozilla to track
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:20 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use,
> not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes.
>
> This is Linux, not some Microsoft (or Apple) "we know what is best for
> you" system.
> Al
>
>
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:46:53 -0400,
Matt McCutchen wrote:
>
> The update page is remote. If you want to disable it, set
> "startup.homepage_override_url" to the empty string. There is also
> "startup.homepage_welcome_url" for the first run of the browser.
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On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:30 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:20:23 -0400,
> Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> >
> > Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use,
> > not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes.
>
> Nor for Mozilla to
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:20:23 -0400,
Al Dunsmuir wrote:
>
> Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use,
> not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes.
Nor for Mozilla to track its users. There shouldn't be a start page at
all as it opens a c
On Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 4:59:27 PM, Matt wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says:
>>
>> "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox
>> Start Page, please be prepared to provide
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:59 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says:
> >
> > "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox
> > Start Page, please be prepared to
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says:
>
> "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox
> Start Page, please be prepared to provide a rationale for the change,
> and how it would benefit the
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:27:59AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says:
>
> "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox
> Start Page, please be prepared to provide a rationale for the change,
> and how it would benef
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:39 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:19 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Fedora gets to build and ship a slightly-modified version of Firefox while
> > retaining the Firefox name due to a distribution partner agreement with
> > Mozilla. Mozilla gets th
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:19 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Fedora gets to build and ship a slightly-modified version of Firefox while
> retaining the Firefox name due to a distribution partner agreement with
> Mozilla. Mozilla gets their money from Google. I don't think we *can* make
> it something
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:52:04PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Yeah, there really doesn't seem any particular reason for the search box
> to be there, unless Google was paying us for it to be there or
> something.
Fedora gets to build and ship a slightly-modified version of Firefox while
retai
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 02:05 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On 08/30/2010 01:52 AM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
> >
> > So why would the policy apply to the search box on
> > http://start.fedoraproject.org , which is just meant for users and is
> > not really a piece of infrastructure?
On 08/30/2010 01:52 AM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
>
> So why would the policy apply to the search box on
> http://start.fedoraproject.org , which is just meant for users and is
> not really a piece of infrastructure?
>
> --
> Matt
>
>
> Because some people are rather overzealo
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 02:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On 08/30/2010 01:01 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > >
> > > Interesting. I can understand not wanting to promote a proprietary
> > > search engine on the Fedora start page, but if t
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 02:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 08/30/2010 01:01 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> >
> > Interesting. I can understand not wanting to promote a proprietary
> > search engine on the Fedora start page, but if the idea is that Fedora
> > users and contributors should be able t
On 08/30/2010 01:01 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
>
> Interesting. I can understand not wanting to promote a proprietary
> search engine on the Fedora start page, but if the idea is that Fedora
> users and contributors should be able to avoid using them altogether, I
> think that's currently pretty u
2010/8/29 Matt McCutchen
> On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:13 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Manuel Escudero wrote:
> > > 3) We're already using a GOOGLE SEARCH BOX!! in
> http://start.fedoraproject.org/ ¿Do you have the code for this one?
> > > NO. And Fedora Project is using it. I
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:13 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Manuel Escudero wrote:
> > 3) We're already using a GOOGLE SEARCH BOX!! in
> > http://start.fedoraproject.org/ ¿Do you have the code for this one?
> > NO. And Fedora Project is using it. I'm sharing a "Fedora Solution" a
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