ng0 <[email protected]> writes:
> Mark H Weaver transcribed 0.4K bytes:
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>> ng0 <[email protected]> writes:
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>> > 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?
> 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
