commit 2a174533acf8163be0996c56153067b001d253d0 Author: Peter Story pstory@andrew.cmu.edu Date: Mon Jan 11 13:56:54 2021 -0500
Switch DDG search on homepage from POST to GET
See tor-browser#40287
Also, eliminate extra "b" parameter from the search form. The presence of "b" would reveal that the search was initiated from the landing page, rather than the urlbar. --- chrome/content/aboutTor/aboutTor.xhtml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/chrome/content/aboutTor/aboutTor.xhtml b/chrome/content/aboutTor/aboutTor.xhtml index 25267fc3..450a72ff 100644 --- a/chrome/content/aboutTor/aboutTor.xhtml +++ b/chrome/content/aboutTor/aboutTor.xhtml @@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ </div>
<div class="searchbox hideIfTorOff"> <!-- begin form based search --> - <form action="&aboutTor.searchDDGPost.link;" method="post"> + <form action="&aboutTor.searchDDGPost.link;" method="get"> <div class="searchwrapper"> <label class="searchlabel" for="search-text"> </label> <input name="q" id="search-text" placeholder="&aboutTor.search.label;" autocomplete="off" type="text"/> - <input name="b" id="search-button" value="" + <input id="search-button" value="" title="&aboutTor.search.label;" alt="&aboutTor.search.label;" type="submit"/> </div>