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

[ng0]

If this comes in twice, I tried to bounce the email before
but I'm not sure if it worked.
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> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:25:10 +0000
> From: ng0>
> To: David Hedlund
> Cc: ng0
> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] search-engines can not be edited
> 
> 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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