[tbb-bugs] #19115 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Make sure Tor Browser 6.0 is not falling back to Bing as its search engine

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#19115: Make sure Tor Browser 6.0 is not falling back to Bing as its search engine
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     Reporter:  gk                        |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  enhancement               |     Status:  new
     Priority:  High                      |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Major                     |   Keywords:  tbb-6.0-must
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 Disconnect does not have access to Google search results anymore. At least
 not at the moment. The fallback is Bing which gives a horrible search
 experience to our users. We should make sure that this does not happen in
 Tor Browser 6.0.

 Some options are:

 1) Go back to Startpage (at least temporarily) for Google results
 2) Switch to DuckDuckGo directly
 3) Use Disconnect but set DuckDuckGo as the engine delivering the search
 results.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19115>
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