Firefox etc. default homepage

[Felix Becker]

Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 07:08:18PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
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>>And it is upstream default. People see "firefox" and expect to have a
>>google search with firefox tips as the standard homepage. Perhaps it
>>could be made into a google (or whatever) search with fedora tips?
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>>They are confused because the browser looks like firefox but doesn't
>>behave like firefox.
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>This seems like crazy-talk. The default start page has been a customizable
>feature in web browsers since, well, the beginning of web browsers. I don't
>think people have any strong expectation of it going to some per-browser
>branded page.
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>I've *never* seen anyone come over to my house and start Firefox and be
>confused that it goes to my home page instead of some generic one.
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>It is also *definitely* wrong to point at Google by default. As cool as they
>may be, they're a for-profit commercial entity with no relation to Fedora.
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>I think the Fedora portal page idea is a good one.
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Hi,
about:blank, i think this is a really good defaultpage, fast and free of 
bugs ;-)
Felix