[#FL-275] Epiphany and Firefox start page should not be Google but a Foresight page - FITS

Foresight Linux

Epiphany and Firefox start page should not be Google but a Foresight page

Created: 25/Apr/07 06:02 PM Updated: 12/Jan/13 09:59 PM

Component/s:

Look and Feel, Public Relations

Affects Version/s:

1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2

Fix Version/s:

2.5.x

Security Level:

Public (Everyone can see this issue)

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Not Specified

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Do we really want to show Google as start page? Maybe rather have a distribution hompeage that links to

Foresight System Manager
Foresight Homepage, Wiki, Forums
And maybe have a search field for Web Search (Google etc.)

But I rather do not want to suggest that everybody wants to use Google only. I think the browser is the chance to talk to our users on first place.

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Paul Cutler added a comment - 22/Jul/07 02:42 AM

This is the default behavior of Epiphany

See: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2007-July/msg00008.html

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Thilo Pfennig added a comment - 23/Jul/07 10:01 PM

You are wrong. You talk abou the default search plugin. This is - when you enter something in the addressbat it uses Google. What I was talking about was the start page.

And OTOH - Foresight changes A LOT of defaults - something being a default is not an argument agains a change.

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Ken VanDine added a comment - 24/Jul/07 04:56 AM

I would suggest creating a static page with some useful information for the start page, including a google search box. Maybe a link to our news letter, link to launch the user guide... whatever.

We should also create some default smart bookmarks for google and rbuilder searches.

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Ken VanDine added a comment - 19/Jan/08 01:29 PM

Kevin, please find a volunteer on the marketing team to create a static html page we can use for the default homepage in epiphany and firefox.

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Chris Beiser added a comment - 12/Apr/09 04:34 AM

Perhaps a first launch search engine choice page?

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Alexandre Franke added a comment - 20/Sep/09 08:56 AM

Retargeting as, obviously, this hasn't been done in the expected timeframe.

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Jesse Zhang added a comment - 06/Aug/10 08:40 AM

epiphany now has its home page as:

r.Replace('http://www.google.com', 'http://www.foresightlinux.org/', 'data/epiphany.schemas.in')