Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Icecat, default DuckDuckGo engine and search region settings

[apatride]

Don't you feel that a version of Icecat without Google "services" 
included in its core would be safer for privacy too ?

Are you funded by Google company directly or vicariously Narcis? Is the 
GnuZilla project in its whole ? Who is taking decisions in GnuZilla ? Is 
there some kind of democratic process involved in it ? Is GnuZilla part 
of the Gnu project ?

So many essential questions, so hard to get answers so far...

The html version of DDG is occupying all your thoughts... must be...



On 24/03/2016 20:15, Narcis Garcia wrote:
> html version of DDG is safer for privacy; default version puts some
> tracking data in your browser such as saved preferences.
>
> I feel that Icecat has no difference in this question from its
> programming code; the difference is in default search engines selecion.
>
>
> El 24/03/16 a les 16:14, Habs ha escrit:
> > re: Icecat 38.5.0 on Slackware 14.1 32bit
> >
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > This is about Icecat and DuckDuckGo search and the respecting of search
> > region (and I presume some other things not as yet noticed).
> >
> > If I search from the address bar and/or search bar at the top of
> > Icecat, then the results returned do not seem to reflect the 'priority'
> > of the previously saved DDG search region setting. The search bar that
> > then appears in the results webpage, does not show the region flag.
> >
> > In Mozilla Firefox, that issue does not exist and the search results do
> > appear to reflect the preferred search region settings and the search
> > bar at the top of the results displays the chosen regions flag.
> >
> > Checking in 'about:config' on Icecat and Firefox, I could not discern
> > any obvious differences between the two that could be a cause.
> >
> > What I have noticed is that Icecat, on pressing enter to search in the
> > address bar or the search bar, returns the results and the address bar
> > entry resembles: https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=.... - note the 'html'.
> > FF returns: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=
> >
> > If I browse to the DDG page: https://duckduckgo.com  and type my search
> > in that search bar on the webpage (as opposed to the address/sear bar
> > search) then the results returned (and the appropriate flag) are
> > respecting the search region preference.
> >
> > It appears that something is different when using the address and
> > search bars.
> >
> > I am unable to affect this with various settings changes I have
> > [blindly] tried and cannot spot obvious differences between FF (where it
> > works as expected) and Icecat.
> >
> > It did 'work' when I downloaded a different DDG search engine which was
> > DDG Blue - it seemed to me to be just a theme change, but it worked.
> > Yet again, I could not spot any differences which I could use in the
> > default engine.
> >
> > My knowledge is limited, but I am enjoying Icecat as for one reason, it
> > appears on my machine to be much faster and performant than FF.
> >
> > I am just looking for ideas to identify where I can affect this
> > behaviour [to respect the region and possibly other settings] as I tend
> > to use the address and search bars a lot.
> >
> > If someone is aware of this or has any ideas, I'd like to hear about
> > them.
> >
> > Thank you
> > Habs
> >
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