Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1 Severity: normal
There are following system-wide searchplugins installed in /usr/share/firefox/searchplugins: amazondotcom.src answers.src creativecommons.src debsearch.src eBay.src google.src wikipedia.src yahoo.src Some of these plugins are not suitable for international distribution and are useless for many non-american users. In particular: * amazondotcom - promotes an online shop, specializing in U.S. book titles in English and Spanish language; limited usefulness for people outside of the U.S.; * answers - service oriented on English-speaking audience only; * creativecommons.org - produces yahoo CC-search results in English language. * ebay - promotes commercial service with limited geographical availability * wikipedia - searches en.wikipedia.org only, does not search for anything in non-English sections of the Wikipedia. These plugins are forced for *all* users of the firefox, without respect of their localization settings, and they stay always on the top of the list of search plugins. In addition, regular users cannot uninstall these search plugins from their firefox, as they are not in their $HOME. Any custom search plugins, installed by regular users, appear below these forced plugins. Most of these plugins are not suitable for the firefox package and should be part of some firefox-locale-[a-z][a-z] packages. My personal opinion is that google, yahoo and debsearch are the only three search plugins which may stay in /usr/share/firefox/searchplugins. Debsearch is a vital part of the Debian project, Google and Yahoo! are the leading search engines with a good support of international users. About wikipedia and creativecommons I am not sure. These plugins produce search results in English language, but the projects are quite international. Probably, for wikipedia a search plugin which searches Google with "site:wikipedia.org" woulde be a nice substitution. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.3 Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.2-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-5 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-3 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.18-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.6-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-1+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-8 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxp6 1:1.0.0.xsf1-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime firefox recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]