On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:59 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says:
>
> "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox
> Start Page, please be prepared to provide a rationale for the change,
> and how it would benefit the end-user. "
>
> I think we could manage such a rationale.
We can definitely make a rationale for having a bunch of Fedora
resources on the start page, but our rationale for omitting a Google
search box, "it's redundant and promotes a proprietary service", is not
a line of reasoning I would expect Mozilla to accept. Then again, they
may calculate that they are better off compromising on this issue in
order to keep Fedora using their trademarks.
'It's redundant' seems fairly reasonable to me. IIRC, the presence of a
search box on the start page is a hangover from when there *wasn't* one
in the browser chrome by default.
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