416535 - bundled searchplugins changes with Firefox 3-he

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: he / Hebrew, defect)

Description

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

For Firefox 3, we have removed two bundled search plugins from the Hebrew locale, which now leave us with Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia-he and Morfix (Dictionary).

nana (http://nana.co.il) - The site is using now Google search, and since Google is already bundled, the search is not necessary. 

netex (http://netex.co.il) - The site is very similar to Google I'm feeling lucky, but is manually-approved and a bit more expensive. 


Both will still be available from our website. I've updated the CVS directory to reflect the removals.

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Mic, are these removals OK?

Comment 2

[Mic Berman]

removals should be ok. 

Tomer, I wasn't clear on what you meant by netex is a "bit more expensive" ?

Would you re-confirm the current list then: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia-he and Morfix (Dictionary)
if so, we should try for a commerce engine if we can? is there on for Hebrew that makes sense?

Comment 3

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Tomer, I wasn't clear on what you meant by netex is a "bit more expensive" ?
Its natural of approving give more ranking to paying sites, instead of Google' that gives higher ranking for 'better' sites. 
> Would you re-confirm the current list then: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia-he and
> Morfix (Dictionary)
Confirming. That's the current engines listed in list.txt.
> if so, we should try for a commerce engine if we can? is there on for Hebrew
> that makes sense?
The best I can think about is zap.co.il, which is price comparison site. In fact we already have their approval, and have search engine ready at our local repository (http://mozilla.org.il/searchengines). I'm not sure if we really like to bundle them with the default installation, but I'll ask the others. 

Comment 4

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

(In reply to comment #3)
> our local repository (http://mozilla.org.il/searchengines).

Silly me. Should be http://mozilla.org.il/searchplugins.

Comment 5

[Mic Berman]

comment #3
thanks for explanation about netex
on zap.co.il, please post back what the community thinks
thanks

Comment 6

[Mic Berman]

Tomer, are you making any other changes to RSS feed or RSS readers? and would you be ok with mailto and calendar defaults?
mailto: Gmail, yahoo, hotmail
calendar: google, yahoo, 30 boxes

Comment 7

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

I would like to make few changes, but have no received yet any confirmations from local service providers or got them to sit and implement support in the server side for the mail handler (mail.walla.co.il). 

For RSS I would like to add at least netvibes, since they have Hebrew user interface. Are we having a [global] confirmation from them, or I have to go and ask them myself?

Comment 8

[Mic Berman]

we have a global confirmation from them, so you can go ahead and swap. i assume we swamp for bloglines?

Comment 9

[Mic Berman]

tomer you should land a patch on netvibes. 
for mailto walla, let's move that to a separate bug for web handlers to land after RC1
any news on zap.co.il - we need to close this bug out with resolutions

Comment 10

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

I'll ask zap.co.il for approval and will update this issue.

Comment 11

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

I've updated morfix-dic.xml to inputEncoding=UTF-8. There is no other code changes. 

Submitted in bug 433777 attachment 321801 [details] [diff] [review].

Comment 12

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

Attachment: patch

Comment 13

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 322832 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

r/a=me, please check this in with a comment referencing this bug and my review/approval