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 17:18:03 -0400 Message-ID: <87y3pbhfjo.fsf@netris.org> References: <20170917124038.aheubmpxixzyx6ne@abyayala> <87wp4wk54l.fsf@netris.org> <20170918071100.hm4z3qjmmrkwvxh2@abyayala> <87bmm8hqxh.fsf@netris.org> <20170918172518.pbivz5heuob2o2cg@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44781) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1du3Ra-0008Lg-IP for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:19:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1du3RX-0005Kl-7g for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:19:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1du3RX-0005KK-4L for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:19:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1du3RW-0005Ie-2M for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:19:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20170918172518.pbivz5heuob2o2cg@abyayala> (ng0@infotropique.org's message of "Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:25:18 +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 1.1K bytes: >> 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? > > With a completely new system (had to set this up for testing Mate) > and guix package -i icecat (for the recent release) and no pre-existing > configuration, the default was Google, not DuckDuckGo. On my GuixSD system, I just tried the following: * Quit IceCat, and wait for the process to really be gone. * Move ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla-OLD. * Restart IceCat. and I found that DuckDuckGo was the default search engine. I'm not sure what you did, but I suspect that you had a ~/.mozilla directory in place where Google was configured to be the default search engine. Mark