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

[KeytarHero]

> Firefox doesn't revert you to defaults

You mean besides that time Firefox reverted everyone's search engine to Yahoo?

[smacktoward → KeytarHero]

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.

[ikurei → smacktoward]

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.)

[afro88 → smacktoward]

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.

[lqdc13 → smacktoward]

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.

[lurkinggrue → smacktoward]

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.