On 12/01/2013 10:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 02:40 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: >> You can go to the preferences and choose another start page >> if you like. (That's not Thunderbird, of course, that's Firefox.) >> Anyway, if you'd rather have Bing, you can have it. Or Yahoo. >> Or whatever pleases you. > > I wasn't talking about the abilities of Mozilla browsers, as I already > mentioned, I'm using them, I just don't like the policy. If you package > e.g. Firefox for a distro, it's possible to use another startpage by > default, but it's not allowed to do it. This is one problem I've got > with Mozillas. IOW, the very first time you start a Mozilla browser that > was packaged without offending a license, you will load their Google > thingy. This is restricted freedom, IOW not freedom. Google is known as > a data protection risk. Changing it by the GUI, after you already > started Firefox, doesn't prevent you against collecting data by Google > and Google's friends, such as the NSA. > > Regards, > Ralf IIRC the start page is integrated in Firefox as "about:home" (at least with newer versions) so nothing is loaded from the Google servers as long as you do not enter any search term and press Enter. -- http://masysma.ohost.de/
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