Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

Re:Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock... by smacktoward on Thursday July 30, 2015 @10:42PM (#9979646)

It only switched your search engine if you'd never changed from the original default (Google). If you had ever switched the search box to use a different engine, FF continued to respect that.

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Re:Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock... by ikurei on Friday July 31, 2015 @04:28AM (#9980584)

But why would I change it if I wanted Google, which incidentally is, I'm sure, what most people want? Leaving the default can be as much a choice as changing it.

(I'm on Mozilla's side in this discussion, but that particular move was terrible, even if not too consequential, in my opinion.)

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Re:Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock... by afro88 on Friday July 31, 2015 @01:09AM (#9980026)

Not changing from the default is as much a choice as changing to something else. They shouldn't have changed it for updates, but for new installs.

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Re:Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock... by lqdc13 on Friday July 31, 2015 @01:40AM (#9980105)

Unless you do the "refresh firefox" thing that shows up every time you have 5 addons installed.

The above experience is on the developer edition of firefox, as I haven't tried it on the normal stable release.

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Re:Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock... by lurkinggrue on Friday July 31, 2015 @12:22PM (#9982634)

I had to deal with friends that were suddenly on yahoo and they didn't know why. So for a lot of people it was swapped out even if it was an accident.

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