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icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org>
Cc: 28479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:18:03 -0400

ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org> writes:

> Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.1K bytes:
>> ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Mark H Weaver transcribed 0.4K bytes:
>> >> 
>> >> ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org> 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

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