Hello— When I installed IceCat on Parabola, I got the privacy conscious La Quadrature as the default default search engine*. When I installed IceCat on GuixSD, I got Google as the default default search engine.
What is the upstream default search engine? Should GNU distributions set this themselves? If the latter is the case, it would still be a good idea if the upstream default default search engine were a privacy conscious search engine. Related to this issue, a bit of browsing through the files at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/ ** shows that the Google search engine was removed in icecat-31.2.0 but not anymore in icecat-52.0.2. That is probably fine (and discussed before on this mailinglist), but the default should not fall back to Google. Thanks! —Marco * With this I mean the default search engine that is selected when IceCat is first start, i.e. there is no ~/.mozilla/ when starting IceCat. ** These appear builds, not source code as mentioned elsewhere (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265828/cant-find-gnu-icecat-or-firefox-source-code) -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
