Abrowser google removal ticks me off.
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With an abrowser update, you can no longer search with google, without some type of config editing. i dont have an issue with ddg being the default, but no longer having google as an option is annoying as hell. this is hypocritical as well because you can use the triskel version with kde and sign in to every damn service on the os, but somehow using google to search, even pseudononymously in private mode is too far? this is dissapointing. i appreciate the work you guys do to keep computing open, but this is really just annoying. sorry for ranting a bit.
You joined just so you could curse at the volunteer developers?
>"sorry for ranting a bit."
Probably didn't accomplish much anyway. Issues are reported here: https://gitlab.trisquel.org/groups/trisquel/-/issues
So there's a deadlink in abrowser because the mycroft changed site. You can go to this site for the install of your favorite search engine.
if you add a search engine to a browser, do you then add a piece of software to the browser? If so, are all search engines listed on mycroftproject.com then free software? How do you determine the license of a search engine?
Thank you.
"Essentially you are not free to copy the website itself but all of the search plugins - the OpenSearch xml description files - are free from restriction."
https://mycroftproject.com/copyright.html
So the xml files are free, but the website is not freedom it looks like. On the other hand it runs well with LibreJS. Although they say the site non-free according to freedom 2, it must be trivial enough that it is okay, or there is a bug in LibreJS. This sounds like a good opportunity to introduce MycroftProject to free JavaScript as they are still needing to write their copyright license out.
> How do you determine the license of a search engine?
I mean how do you browse the web without encountering random non-free javascript. I think the answer is LibreJS. There maybe other reasons to avoid those search engines.
If you get to the install page of the search plugin, there should be a button in your search bar to add it. You have to make sure you look at the tool-tip to make sure it is the right plugin.
I don't think you should call the individuals you don't know as hypocrites. But far from that, I has been using Trisquel for like two years, and had never been Google as a default search engine, or optional.
And you've always been able to change the default search engine to anyone you want. It has never been prevented because making that change does not require non-free software. You never wondered, if it's true that you haven't really inquired enough?
> With an abrowser update, you can no longer search with google, without some type of config editing.
Abrowser doesn't use Google as search engine for quite some time now, so maybe you are fairly new to be able appreciate the bug that added it, regardless, the last search engine "reset" from the last update comes from the Firefox 128.0.3 update codebase.
These changes in the search engine components are still in process for Abrowser, and the next update might bring yet more changes on that regard, while the tuned migration to the newer search engine component gets sorted out.
- https://trisquel.info/es/forum/abrowser-settings-modified-last-update
> this is really just annoying
I think the same way.
Regards.
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you can no longer search with google, without some type of config editing
Sorry but your description is not clear to me. Do you mean that you had Google set as search engines to be used in the address bar on in the search bar, and now it is no more there?
And did you manage to add it back, and if so with what config editing?
Usually, I add search engines in there by the method in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox, I just tried with Google and it does not work, but I suspect this is because Google does not provide this OpenSearch description format, not because abrowser changed something.
no longer having google as an option is annoying as hell. this is hypocritical as well because...
You are totally misinterpreting the situation, this is just a bug. Until it is corrected, if you want to search with google, you can put a bookmark on the google search page, make it visible right under the address bar and click on it to open the page and type your search.
I am a member!
I've noticed a similar bug with using gmail in icedove. It can't be set up automatically. Trying to set it up manually, according to gmail's instructions didn't work, either. I had to grab an old copy of my ".thunderbird" folder, copy it to my home, and rename it ".icedove". This workaround is well within my capability, but, why should I have to do this? I'm calling this a bug, regardless of what the zealots might say!
>"regardless of what the zealots might say!"
Reasonable privacy expectations = zealotry
Duly noted.