[Bug 1096286]

[Iann-bugzilla]

(In reply to Chris Coulson from comment #7)
> (In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #5)
> > 
> > I'm personally inclined to review a patch that removes chambers alltogether
> > from aurora and then beta for 19. I'm not sure if we should keep a plugin
> > that is either not used in any significant way, so chambers doesn't notice
> > they're breaking something, or that chambers doesn't mind breaking without
> > saying so upfront.
> 
> Indeed, after doing a quick Google search I found this SUMO article from 4
> months ago, so it looks like it has been broken for quite a long time
> already with hardly anybody noticing:
> 
> http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/936287

Depends what the en-GB user base is, I have no visibility of those
figures, or how many people have been using the chambers' searchplugin
(historically / currently).

en-GB is not offered automatically from IE or any other browser with
OS/browser both being en-GB locale, so, if a user wants to switch from
the shipped default, they get given Firefox en-US unless they know to
click on "Systems & Languages". This will probably reduce the user base
but not sure by how much.

Linux distributions do ship localised versions so, if the user updates
the distribution, they do get the correct localised update.

Not sure what happens with Windows/OS X for en-GB on the release
channel, but will see for Windows after next release.

The link in the article gives some working searchplugins:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=chambers
Should one of those be used? Is there a history available?

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