[Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

Donald Stewart watersnowrock at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 14:58:28 CET 2011


On 19 February 2011 13:53, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:14:17 +0800, Funda Wang wrote:
>>
>> 2011/2/18 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
>>>
>>> Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 11:49 +0100, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:23, Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Hello,
>>>> >
>>>> > I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we
>>>> > still promote ask.com as default search engine of firefox, and other
>>>> > additional search engines such as jamendo.
>>>> >
>>>> > I think mageia has nothing todo with above search engine.
>>>>
>>>> Yes there is no reason
>>>> What should be decided is if Mageia switches back to default search
>>>> engine or selects another one for whatever reason
>>>
>>> Following upstream seems to be the safer solution for the moment.
>>>
>>> ( even if I would not be against promoting alternative solutions ).
>>
>> Agreed. But the reason of promoting ask.com as default search engine,
>> is that they have an agreement with Mandriva the company. So...
>
> When speaking of alternatives, I was more thinking of distributed one like
> yacy, seeks, majestic12 rather than others commercials one.
>
> --
> Michael Scherer
>
>

I'm meant to be getting dooble, a new browser a d yacy working
together in a rpm, the upstreams people who develop yacy seem to work
with it on dooble.

As for Jamendo, it would be nice to keep that and its a useful site.

Donald


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