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> Firefox doesn't revert you to defaults You mean besides that time Firefox reverted everyone's search engine to Yahoo?

• smacktoward 11y ago
  It only switched your search engine if you'd never changed from the original default (Google). If you had ever switched the search box to use a different engine, FF continued to respect that.
  • afro88 11y ago
    Not changing from the default is as much a choice as changing to something else. They shouldn't have changed it for updates, but for new installs.
  • lqdc13 11y ago
    Unless you do the "refresh firefox" thing that shows up every time you have 5 addons installed. The above experience is on the developer edition of firefox, as I haven't tried it on the normal stable release.
  • ikurei 11y ago
    But why would I change it if I wanted Google, which incidentally is, I'm sure, what most people want? Leaving the default can be as much a choice as changing it. (I'm on Mozilla's side in this discussion, but that particular move was terrible, even if not too consequential, in my opinion.)
  • lurkinggrue 11y ago
    I had to deal with friends that were suddenly on yahoo and they didn't know why. So for a lot of people it was swapped out even if it was an accident.