On Thu 2015-08-13 09:37:10 -0400, James Ensor wrote: > After upgrading iceweasel, performing a search from the address bar uses > yahoo.com to do the search. My default search provider was previously set to > google.com. I would expect that my default search setting would not be > changed > during an upgrade.
If you manually selected google.com previously, your default search provider would not change with an upgrade. If you were depending on the software's default search provider (which used to be google), then an upgrade could well change the software's default search provider. look at browser.search.selectedEngine in about:config -- if it is blank, you will use the browser's default search engine. In your case, i suspect it was blank, so an upgrade that changed the default also changed your selected search engine. I think this is the right behavior of any piece of software: keep the user's configuration if they have one, and rely on the built-in defaults if they haven't. --dkg
