You are not average. The average person loads up the browser and wants it to just work. We're software engineers, but we have to understand our users too - and

You are not average. The average person loads up the browser and wants it to just work. We're software engineers, but we have to understand our users too - and they're vastly different to us. Anecdote incoming - most of the people who use Firefox in my immediate circle are family members, and they don't care about configuring a default search. They don't know about DDG, they don't know about Bing, and they don't care. They want to open their browser and search whatever they need to find. Configurability is the engineer's pipe dream, but it dismisses a lot of people - and what matters is the masses, not the HN minority. We are a minority.