<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 19:08, Rick Spencer <<a href="mailto:rick.spencer@canonical.com">rick.spencer@canonical.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 15:14 -0500, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > Since Google is the current default, will the switch to Yahoo only > have an effect on new installs? </div>No, this will effect upgrades if the computer is currently set to Google. This is not because of anything special for this particular change. This is because Ubuntu always changes to new defaults for users who are on old defaults. However, if you are set to wikipedia as your search provider (for example) then that means that you are no longer using the default, so Ubuntu won't change you to the new default. </blockquote> </div>Given the sensitivity of this change for many people, I would ask you to consider keeping the current setting whatever it is (Google or not). People tend to be very passionate about such issues. Also, keep in mind that for many people, Google (still) is the official partner of the Mozilla Foundation. For those folks it MAY seem that Canonical is cutting Mozilla's revenue. While I am sure that this was not the intention, this is the way things are. I think Canonical should do a better effort to coordinate the communication of this change with the community to avoid bad rep. -- Carlos Ribeiro Consultoria em Projetos twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/carribeiro">http://twitter.com/carribeiro</a> blog: <a href="http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com">http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com</a> mail: <a href="mailto:carribeiro@gmail.com">carribeiro@gmail.com</a>