Re: Remove Yahoo search or make it user selectable without jumping through hoops

On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:58:01 +1300, you wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:35:33 +0000 (UTC), Eric wrote:
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>> Why did someone pick Yahoo for search in the most recent release?
>> Seriously?
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>
>http://www.techtimes.com/articles/20602/20141122/heres-why-firefox-dumped-google-and-make-yahoo-its-default-search-engine.htm
>http://www.computerworld.com/article/2850464/mozilla-tells-google-its-not-you-anymore-its-yahoo.html
>https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/11/yahoo-and-mozilla-form-strategic-partnership/
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing
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>> Please instead make it user selectable. (from address bar or search bar, hopefully both)
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>FYI it is still user-selectable from the search bar here.
>I use the English (British) build of Firefox.  https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
>
>As I understand it, the change to Yahoo applies only to the English (US) 
>build.  
>[Except: it also applies if your non-US language version was made by 
>adding a language pack to the English (US) build.  This is often the 
>case with Linux distro versions.]
>    

If your Linux distro can handle .debs, then the latest US version of
Iceweasel (very thinly disguised Firefox) from the Debian Wheezy
repositories is still using Google. 


Brian.