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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by m0ngr31 on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:53PM (#30678130)
Should they have blocked Google and Bing after the invasion of Iraq?
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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by kazinator on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:54PM (#30678153)
Bing didn't exist in 2003 (launched in 2009), and I don't think that Firefox ("Firebird" at the time) had a search bar with search engines.
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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by Dunedan on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:50PM (#30678889)
That got me curious, so I fired up some old versions of Mozilla Phoenix and checked that out. Turns out already Mozilla Phoenix 0.2 (https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/phoenix/releases/0.2/), released on October 1, 2002, which was the version which originally introduced the search bar, offered the ability to select different search providers.
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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by kazinator on Monday March 14, 2022 @06:22PM (#30679234)
Hey, that's interesting. Thanks for looking into it!
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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by max599 on Monday March 14, 2022 @08:40PM (#30680407)
Bombing civilians in the middle east didn't stop in 2009­.
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