Re: Proprietary search engines

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On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:30 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:20:23 -0400,
>   Al Dunsmuir <al.dunsmuir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Please  do  not  ignore that the browser is there for the user to use,
> > not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes.
> 
> Nor for Mozilla to track its users. There shouldn't be a start page at
> all as it opens a connection back to the start page server before you
> (easily) have a chance to disable it. It is especially annoying that
> that after updates you still get some Mozilla update page (that at
> fisrt glance appears to be from a remote server, though maybe there is
> some trickery going on) even though the start page is disabled.

The update page is remote.  If you want to disable it, set
"startup.homepage_override_url" to the empty string.  There is also
"startup.homepage_welcome_url" for the first run of the browser.

I'm not commenting on what the default should be.

-- 
Matt

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