Dear anonymous "apatride": I'm subscribed democraticaly to this mailing list same as you, I'm not funded by you, and you are'nt funded by me.
Good luck. El 28/03/16 a les 14:58, apatride ha escrit: > Don't you feel that a version of Icecat without Google "services" > included in its core would be safer for privacy too ? > > Are you funded by Google company directly or vicariously Narcis? Is the > GnuZilla project in its whole ? Who is taking decisions in GnuZilla ? Is > there some kind of democratic process involved in it ? Is GnuZilla part > of the Gnu project ? > > So many essential questions, so hard to get answers so far... > > The html version of DDG is occupying all your thoughts... must be... > > > > On 24/03/2016 20:15, Narcis Garcia wrote: >> html version of DDG is safer for privacy; default version puts some >> tracking data in your browser such as saved preferences. >> >> I feel that Icecat has no difference in this question from its >> programming code; the difference is in default search engines selecion. >> >> >> El 24/03/16 a les 16:14, Habs ha escrit: >>> re: Icecat 38.5.0 on Slackware 14.1 32bit >>> >>> Hi everyone >>> >>> This is about Icecat and DuckDuckGo search and the respecting of search >>> region (and I presume some other things not as yet noticed). >>> >>> If I search from the address bar and/or search bar at the top of >>> Icecat, then the results returned do not seem to reflect the 'priority' >>> of the previously saved DDG search region setting. The search bar that >>> then appears in the results webpage, does not show the region flag. >>> >>> In Mozilla Firefox, that issue does not exist and the search results do >>> appear to reflect the preferred search region settings and the search >>> bar at the top of the results displays the chosen regions flag. >>> >>> Checking in 'about:config' on Icecat and Firefox, I could not discern >>> any obvious differences between the two that could be a cause. >>> >>> What I have noticed is that Icecat, on pressing enter to search in the >>> address bar or the search bar, returns the results and the address bar >>> entry resembles: https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=.... - note the 'html'. >>> FF returns: https://duckduckgo.com/?q= >>> >>> If I browse to the DDG page: https://duckduckgo.com and type my search >>> in that search bar on the webpage (as opposed to the address/sear bar >>> search) then the results returned (and the appropriate flag) are >>> respecting the search region preference. >>> >>> It appears that something is different when using the address and >>> search bars. >>> >>> I am unable to affect this with various settings changes I have >>> [blindly] tried and cannot spot obvious differences between FF (where it >>> works as expected) and Icecat. >>> >>> It did 'work' when I downloaded a different DDG search engine which was >>> DDG Blue - it seemed to me to be just a theme change, but it worked. >>> Yet again, I could not spot any differences which I could use in the >>> default engine. >>> >>> My knowledge is limited, but I am enjoying Icecat as for one reason, it >>> appears on my machine to be much faster and performant than FF. >>> >>> I am just looking for ideas to identify where I can affect this >>> behaviour [to respect the region and possibly other settings] as I tend >>> to use the address and search bars a lot. >>> >>> If someone is aware of this or has any ideas, I'd like to hear about >>> them. >>> >>> Thank you >>> Habs >>> >>> -- >>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >>> >> -- >> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >> > > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
