679012 - Bundle more general search engines

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Google.com currently sends Fennec users to their WinMo page, which is generally a bad experience all around. Faking the android of iphone ua string will get us the touch pages which also provide a bad user experience because they're not designed to gracefully degrade in other browsers. I don't think we want to push our users to these sites.

At the same time, I think many Firefox desktop users would be shocked to install Firefox mobile and not see Google in their search list. So instead of removing it, I think we would be better to just ship some alternatives that we know provide better UX, and remove some of the special case search engines we're currently shipping that most users likely never touch. I looked at Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ask.com this weekend. Of those, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo both provide sites that work well in Firefox Mobile.

Comment 1

[Thomas Arend [:tarend]]

This may have legal implications - I will check with out legal team to get their advice while keeping this bug open.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Let's add Yahoo.

Comment 3

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Attachment: Patch

Wait a sec. We've already got this?

Comment 4

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Comment on attachment 559489 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

Removing review request. I talked to Kevin and he is going to contact Yahoo to make sure this image/url are correct before we flip the switch.

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component