[Mycroft] Search-Plugins shipping with Mozilla Suite?

[Matthew A. McGuigan]

Alan Bramley wrote:

> Good one, never noticed this since I normally just overwrite the 
> folder with a copy of my own plugin selections.
>
> Anyway, these pre-installed plugins don't really reflect what we see 
> as being the most popular. How is it decided what these plugins should 
> be? I couldn't find anything in Bugzilla relating to this.
>
> Alan
>
>
It was long ago decided by a few developers, I think.  Since there was 
no end-user focus, mostly developer only search-plugins were chosen.  A 
bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213822 was filed to get 
a few search-plugins for end-users in there, but because it was a 
blocker and it asked in general to clean things up, it ended up marked 
as a dup of http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225490 and the 
only plugin that came out of it was askjeeves.  It is kind of sad really.

Mat