Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] search-engines can not be edited

[ng0]

Hi David,

David Hedlund transcribed 1.5K bytes:
> Can you fix it?

I would rather see someone else work on this:
In october I start with university and I'm currently
dealing with antisocial behavior of anti-human organizations
I depend on until this starts. Plus I'm still working on
getting more people involved with infotropique OS.

I'm looking at mozilla code at the moment for Icedove and
Firefox and patches related to them, but I haven't looked
at how to fix the static search engine behavior yet.

> On 2017-04-21 21:15, ng0 wrote:
> > ng0 transcribed 1.2K bytes:
> > > David Hedlund transcribed 0.9K bytes:
> > > > On 2017-01-07 23:12, ng0 wrote:
> > > > > ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I consider this a bug in icecat, not a feature:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > When I use firefox and add "searx" from https://about.me/about ,
> > > > > > Correction: https://searx.me/about
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This feature pre-dates firefox 45x and is still present in 49x
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I am able to later edit its url in about:preferences#search and
> > > > > > > change the properties to set the url to an .onion address.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I see no reason why I this ability should be removed in icecat,
> > > > > > > anyone got an explanation why this functionality is removed?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > And keyword.URL in about:config is not what I mean.
> > > > > Please consider fixing this bug in the next release, this is a
> > > > > feature which has limits the usability of the browser.
> > > > > I will work on a patch for myself and/or my system.
> > > > > 
> > > > Can you please revise your bug and re-evaluate in icecat-52.0.2?
> > > > 
> > > Thanks for getting back to this.
> > > 
> > > I will as soon as the new icecat is available on the systems I use.
> > > -- 
> > > PGP and more: https://people.pragmatique.xyz/ng0/
> > > 
> > Okay, Icecat FF52 based is now available, and I looked into this bug.
> > It's still existing.
> > 
> > Unless someone beats me at fixing it, I will fix it at some point in the 
> > next
> > months and send a patch here (I'm not using savannah).
> 

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