The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le samedi 10 mai 2008 à 16:01 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit :
> And, to get back on the issue, perhaps the page could just be made
> local.
Why do we need a special Ubuntu homepage anyway? The first thing I do
when creating an account is changing my homepage to google.com. This
practice mades me think of Internet Explorer defaulting to msn.com -
well, much less ugly since our page is not full of ads and is using a
"real" search engine.

Wouldn't it be better to provide a page with help and informations about
Ubuntu and some links like: "Set your homepage to google.com"/"to
yahoo.com"/"to a custom page" ?
We should keep in mind that people install an OS not to think about this
OS but to work or surf; let's not be intrusive but help them to find
easily what they want.

What do you think?