January 27, 2010 - 10:54 am
According to a recent email by Canonical’s Rick Spencer in the Ubuntu development mailing list, Canonical is planning to change Firefox’s default search provider to Yahoo! starting with forthcoming Lucid Lynx, due in April.
The change will also change the default home page from the current Ubuntu customized Google search page to a Yahoo! home page.
The post emphasizes that previous user choices of search engines will be respected, so the change will apply for new users only (new installations, or new local users).
September 16, 2008 - 2:54 pm
When Firefox Mac and Windows users install Firefox, they are prompted with a screen to accept the End-User License Agreement. As usual, we don’t read a thing, assume everything is OK and just do whatever necessary to have it installed and be done with it.
Here’s the EULA.
Ubuntu (and about every Linux distribution) ships with Firefox already installed so users are not prompted with the EULA at any time. Mozilla wants Ubuntu 8.10 (due next month) to include a patch to display the EULA on its first run to ensure users sign the EULA, which as said before doesn’t mean most of them will actually read it. Instead, most of them, will just click on whatever they need to.
