Bug 27347

Summary:	Remove commercial advertising from "top-sites"
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	nicolas.salguero, ouaurelien
Version:	8	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	firefox-78.3.0-1.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	28788
Attachments:	commercial sites advertised in url-bar

Description Hartmut Goebel 2020-10-02 19:17:52 CEST

Description of problem:

When clicking in the url-bar, commercial sides are advertised, see attached image. Amongst these are sites which are part of surveillance capitalism, eg. facebook, youtube/google ebay.

I found no option in the setting to configure these.

The only way I found is to set "browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites = false" in about:config. Anway this has two draqbacks:
1: Only advanced users are able to configure this
2. This also disables "mageia.org" showing up there.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
78.3.0

How reproducible:

1. Open a new tab in firefox
2. Click into the url-bar

Comment 1 Hartmut Goebel 2020-10-02 19:19:42 CEST

Created attachment 11896 [details]
commercial sites advertised in url-bar

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-10-03 13:32:26 CEST

Hi, thanks for reporting this bug.

We at Mageia do not do politic. This seems a Firefox default behavior also available on other platform. If there is a way to fix this, it can be done.
I even don't see an upstream documentation on this.

Assigned to the recent commiter to look at this.
Packager: Please set the status to 'assigned' if you are working on it.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
CC: (none) => nicolas.salguero, ouaurelien
Keywords: (none) => Triaged

Aurelien Oudelet 2021-04-16 13:20:43 CEST

Blocks: (none) => 28788

Comment 3 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-07-06 13:16:35 CEST

Mageia 7 is EOL since July 1st 2021.
There will not have any further bugfix for this release.

You are encouraged to upgrade to Mageia 8 as soon as possible.

@reporter, if this bug still apply with Mageia 8, please let us know it.

@packager, if you work on the Mageia 7 version of your package, please check the Mageia 8 package if issue is also present. In this case, please fix the Mageia 8 version instead.

This bug report will be closed OLD if there is no further notice within 1st September 2021.

Comment 4 Hartmut Goebel 2021-07-07 17:03:55 CEST

Still valid for Mageia 8.

Version: 7 => 8