From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:12:10 -0400 Message-ID: <87bmm8hqxh.fsf@netris.org> References: <20170917124038.aheubmpxixzyx6ne@abyayala> <87wp4wk54l.fsf@netris.org> <20170918071100.hm4z3qjmmrkwvxh2@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dtzbY-0001r6-5P for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:13:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dtzbT-0004za-Aa for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:13:08 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dtzbT-0004zL-5m for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:13:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dtzbS-0002Bo-V2 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:13:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20170918071100.hm4z3qjmmrkwvxh2@abyayala> (ng0@infotropique.org's message of "Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:11:00 +0000") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: ng0 Cc: 28479@debbugs.gnu.org ng0 writes: > Mark H Weaver transcribed 0.4K bytes: >> >> ng0 writes: >> >> > 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