various browsers guide users toward proprietary JavaScript

If a browser has JavaScript enabled by default and directs users to a page with proprietary JavaScript, it effectively guides users toward installing proprietary software.

If a proprietary search engine is the browser's start page, proprietary software will be installed and executed immediately upon launching the browser. If the browser's default search engine requires proprietary JavaScript, it will be possible to launch the browser without installing and executing proprietary software, but most users will do so the moment they search for something. Even if it is not the default, recommending such a search engine, as is the case with Abrowser's "one-click" search engines, is an endorsement of proprietary software.

This is not such a problem in the case of IceCat, since LibreJS blocks the proprietary JavaScript from the search engines that IceCat recommends. However, Abrowser by default installs the proprietary JavaScript from the search engines it recommends (DuckDuckGo, Google, Amazon, etc.) Other browsers in the repo have similar issues to Abrowser.

In the case of Abrowser, I suggest making Searx the default and removing all "one-click" search engines except for Wikipedia.