Hi, will you change the keyword.URL setting also, which is currently set to Google? It's used when you type random stuff into the address bar.
Regards /Ernst On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 21:03, Rick Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > All - > > I am writing to apprise you of two small but important changes coming to > Firefox in Lucid. I have asked the desktop team to start preparing > these changes to make them available in Lucid as soon as reasonably > possible. Probably on the order of weeks. > > Change #1 > In Lucid, the default home page will respect the search provider > settings that you have set in the "Chrome". (The "Chrome" is Mozilla's > term for the little search box to the upper right, reachable by > control-K, for instance). For Lucid, this will definitely work for > switching between Google and Yahoo!, we don't yet know what other > providers will be in scope for Lucid. If a user has Google set as their > search provider,they will have exactly the experience they do today. If > they switch to Yahoo!, the default home page will switch to using a > Yahoo! search. If they switch back to Google, the default home page will > switch back to using the Google search, exactly like today. Searching > from Chrome will continue to work exactly as it does today. > > Change #2 > Change #2 is changing the default search provider in Firefox to Yahoo! > Note that this won't in any way effect the ability of a user to choose > and use the search provider of their choice. It's literally 2 easily > discoverable clicks to change this setting, a simple matter of switching > to that search provider in the chrome by clicking on the icon and > choosing the desired provider. Note also that Yahoo! does not share any > personally identifiable or usage information. > > Why? > I am pursuing this change because Canonical has negotiated a revenue > sharing deal with Yahoo! and this revenue will help Canonical to provide > developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and > the Ubuntu Platform. This change will help provide these resources as > well as continuing to respect our user's default search across Firefox. > > Cheers, Rick > > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
