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

[Blaise Alleyne]

Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> 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?
>
>   

I tend to agree. I can see the point of a start page with more 
information about Ubuntu and such, there's an argument for it... but 
even so, do we really need a custom search on that start page? What's 
the point of having a search bar on that page anyways?