Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-11 Thread Blaise Alleyne
Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Le samedi 10 mai 2008 à 16:01 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit : And, to get back on the issue, perhaps the page could just be made local. Why do we need a special Ubuntu homepage anyway? The first thing I do when creating an account is changing my

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-11 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno dom, 11/05/2008 alle 15.11 -0400, Blaise Alleyne ha scritto: I tend to agree. I can see the point of a start page with more information about Ubuntu and such, there's an argument for it... but even so, do we really need a custom search on that start page? What's the point of

The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Hi all. The new firefox start page in hardy: http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/ is aesthetically pleasing, and I like it, however the google search gives me concerns: 1) search results returned using the search field of firefox (upper right corner of the browser) are different than those returned

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread James Westby
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 11:21 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Hi all. The new firefox start page in hardy: http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/ is aesthetically pleasing, and I like it, however the google search gives me concerns: Hi, The website also uses launchpad for bug tracking, you can

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno sab, 10/05/2008 alle 12.08 +0100, James Westby ha scritto: The website also uses launchpad for bug tracking, you can file any bugs you like at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+filebug where the people able to do something about it are more likely to see it. If

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Dylan McCall
2) country seems to be set to UK, which can explain (1) but I don't like this behaviour especially because it breaks usability for non-UK users and creates confusion Oh, that is pretty ugly :o 4) the obtained page does not have the standard google look and feel (in particular there is no

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno sab, 10/05/2008 alle 06.50 -0700, Dylan McCall ha scritto: 5) there already is the search engine input field, and the focus is shifted without conditions to the page field only after loading the ubuntu page, which is rather irritating because you may already be typing then. In

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 10 mai 2008 à 16:01 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit : And, to get back on the issue, perhaps the page could just be made local. Why do we need a special Ubuntu homepage anyway? The first thing I do when creating an account is changing my homepage to google.com. This practice mades me