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When I worked at Mozilla, the official policy was that when the user overrides the default search engine, then that search engine pref is left alone. (Note tha
by dblohm7 5y ago
When I worked at Mozilla, the official policy was that when the user overrides the default search engine, then that search engine pref is left alone.
(Note that if the user never changed the default, but the default itself changed, for example when Mozilla switched from Google to Yahoo (or vice versa), that was considered to be fair game.)
Whenever this happened while I was there, it was always due to an actual bug. I highly doubt that there is anything nefarious going on here.
- Mindless2112 5y agoThis isn't a bug report. It's a Mozilla KB article about why they changed the search engine preference that you made.
- encryptluks2 5y agoI'm glad you're optimistic but I've seen too many nefarious things from Mozilla to be as optimistic as you. Mozilla could have included a copy of the contract that they are trying to get search engines to agree too, but they didn't. So much for transparency.
- cmeacham98 5y agoDid you even read the linked article? Mozilla is dropping some engines from Firefox (presumably because they stopped paying), so they have to change the preference back to the default because the previous value will no longer be valid.