| Summary: | Thunderbird has bing as default search engine | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Thomas Backlund <tmb> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Florian Hubold <doktor5000> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | doktor5000 |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | MGA4TOO, MGA3TOO | ||
| Source RPM: | thunderbird | CVE: | |
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Description
Thomas Backlund
2014-10-28 22:51:09 CET
Thanks for noticing, will have a look. Status:
NEW =>
ASSIGNED On my system, about:config shows as Default: browser.search.order1 Google browser.search.order2 Yahoo browser.search.order3 Bing However, right-clicking on a link offers to search using Yahoo I never normally use the search option in Thunderbird and so I can't be certain that it always selects Yahoo. My Thunderbird profile has been through many systems over the years and so I've no idea when or how these were added. Just to add to my confusion browser.search.defaultenginename is set to Google My setup is a clean mga4.1 install with all updates, no idea if bing was default on the clean install, I only noticed it when I had updated all packages and started using thundebird more... Well, my thunderbird profile goes back to version 2.something (at least from what I remember vaguely) and I wasn't even aware that it offers a search engine. But also here, when selecting some text in a mail, on rightclick it offers Bing search for "foobar" ... With a quick glance over the results from googling "thunderbird bing search engine" this issue seems to go back to at least 2012 to TB 11.0 : http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2445257 and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.support.thunderbird/3OcVBeZdxao As I'll need to edit userChrome.css for the new "grey in grey" design in compose window, will probably also edit the defaults for global search and the searchplugin for the right-click context menu, as described e.g. here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/173822/how-to-make-thunderbird-not-use-bing-as-search-engine or here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-search-engine-open-search ---- What order do we prefer? DuckDuckGo Google [...] ? We should probably also revise Firefox, as Bing has a higher priority there over Duckduckgo - I thought Duckduckgo should be the default, no? IIRC we hadn't ever forced DDG to be the default (that should be Google), but we had just added it as an option. I wouldn't be opposed to changing it to the default, but that should probably go through the council. Certainly, Bing should absolutely not be a default or priority over anything, that's obvious :o) Well, I thought so too - but that's intentional from Mozilla, check: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731590#c12 That came from Roland Tanglao (Thunderbird Technical Support Lead) quoted in the now non-existent thunderbird getsatisfaction page. See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=11842541 OTOH, they also default to Google on Firefox Oo @David: If I forget, could you bring up this topic with search engine default/ordering regarding DDG on next council meeting? If it's upstream default, then closing this bug report as INVALID. I'm not sure we can change the default and keep the "thunderbird" name, to be checked. Status:
ASSIGNED =>
RESOLVED |