[Mycroft] Search-Plugins shipping with Mozilla Suite?

[Alan Bramley]

Hi Mat,

Yes, I see what you mean. I've submitted a new bug (enhancement) which 
puts a different emphasis on it 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231271.

More luck next time perhaps.

Alan

Matthew A. McGuigan wrote:
> 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
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