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