[tor-bugs] #4902 [Tor Browser]: Change the default search engine in TBB

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#4902: Change the default search engine in TBB
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 Reporter:  phobos       |          Owner:  erinn   
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:          
Component:  Tor Browser  |        Version:          
 Keywords:               |         Parent:          
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:          
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Changes (by mikeperry):

  * status:  new => assigned
 * cc: mikeperry, erinn (added)
  * owner:  mikeperry => erinn


Comment:

 @phobos: mk is right. It looks like ixquick is no longer the same backend
 as startpage.com. Startpage.com seems to use Google on the back end where
 as ixquick does not. That gives us another option..

 I am in favor of getting Google out of the default omnibox position, at
 least for now, due mainly to the Captcha problem. I am also made nervous
 by the gmail linkage. I'm not sure if people are aware of this risk, and
 the TBB threat model doesn't deal with it.

 I am annoyed by startpage/ixquick giving us the cold shoulder, but I do
 feel like real Google search results are considerably better than what I
 get from DuckDuckGo (which I guess is Bing?)..

 So I am torn between startpage and DDG for the omnibox default... We
 should include them both, though, and probably eliminate ebay, amazon,
 yahoo and bing.

 Erinn, do you happen to know how the url box is built during the build
 process? Can we just add in our own .src plugins and remove the current
 ones?

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