Personal computing discussed
Captain Ned wrote:Welch wrote:Thanks for this amazing find Captain. Id love to see TechReport do a follow up with the Firefox team to find out what gives. Making a deal with a new partner is whatever, force changing my search engine because of my locale allows you to get away with it??? That is just borderline malware level stuff.
I'd wait until 35.0.2 or whatever and changing the US locale field to "true" before claiming success.
Wait a minute. I've got my work lappy on Mozilla Sync and I did not get the update prompt while at work today. I should be able to test the US locale bit when I get in tomorrow AM. This is what I'll use:Code: Select allbrowser.search.defaultenginename user set string Google
browser.search.defaultenginename.US default string data:text/plain,browser.search.defaultenginename.US=Yahoo (was Google)
browser.search.isUS default string true (was false)
browser.search.order.1 user set string Google
browser.search.order.2 user set string Google
browser.search.order.US.1 default string data:text/plain,browser.search.order.US.1=Yahoo (was Google)
browser.search.order.US.2 user set string data:text/plain,browser.search.order.US.2=Google
If the chaos in the office leaves me alone for a bit I should have results by 8:00AM EST. If this switches default to Yahoo I'll replace Yahoo in defaultenginename.US in another account on the lappy (what, you haven't used publicly available tools to grab root on your work lappy?) with Bing and see if Bing becomes default. if it does, it means that "browser.search.isUS" is the culprit.
EDIT: Here's the other bit. Changing defaults and search orders within Firefox does not change any field with "US" in it. This is why (to be tested) the Yahoo switch keeps happening. When I first changed things from within Firefox the non-"US" fields registered the change yet the "US" fields remained at defaults. To change "US" fields, one must use about:config.
EDIT2: Should I confirm all of this, I should write an add-on to do it all at once. Too bad my programming skills ended with BASIC back around 1981 or so.
just brew it! wrote:This is exactly the sort of thing that gets the Open Source evangelist types riled up. I wonder if Linux distros will start ditching Firefox in their default installs for other browsers like Chromium. AFAIK all of the major distros already offer Chromium as an option in their repositories, so it would be trivial to implement.
Welch wrote:Just applied the mini-update to 35.0.1 (it popped up not forced via "About") and the search engine stayed the same, no change.
DrCR wrote:Techs still use Google? I thought everyone was using duckduckgo?