[smc-discuss] [CoFSUG] Should gnome web browser use google as its default web browser?

[shravan aras]

Hi,

Praveen I have cooked up a patch for epiphany which uses duckduckgo as
the default search engine.
The patch is attached with this mail as a .path file. Kindly apply it
using the "patch" command.
Bellow are some details which will aid you in applying/compiling the
source code.

Code Version : 3.2.1
Please do not use the git version. I wasted an hour trying to compile
it, but gave up as it needs glib3.0 + which is currently not in debian
testing.
apt-get source epiphany-browser
should do the trick.

After downloading the source try to configure it using ./configure (no
need to run autogen.sh as the configure file will already be there
thanks to the Debian pkg team).
At this stage I got a couple of missing packages error. The
dependencies in no particular order are -
epiphany-browser-dev
gtk-doc-tools
libgnome-keyring-dev
libsoup-gnome2.4-dev
libnotify-dev
libnss3-dev (This lib is what does the URL parsing, so we must thank
this else the patch will not work :) )

Try run "make" after the dependencies are resolved followed by a "make
install". Test to see if it running.

Apply the patch on the embed/ephy-web-view.c file.

make & make install

Try running the application now. It should search on duckduckgo.com by
default now.

Please post any other dependencies on this thread so others can find
the process easy.

** No responsibilities for breaking you browser, though it will not happen.

Thank You,


On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:
> Epiphany or 'Web' doesn't allow changing default search provider
> easily (you have to know a specific dconf key). I reported a bug and
> they don't seem to be interested in giving this choice for users or
> choose a privacy respecting search engine as default. GNOME FAIL!
>
> If you think this is a bad choice for gnome to make on behalf of its
> Free Software users, please comment on this bug
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672700
>
> Share your thoughts here as well. Also see http://donttrack.us/ and
> http://dontbubble.us/ to get an idea why google search is bad for your
> privacy. I have been happily using duckduckgo.com as my default search
> engine for quite some time now. Try it out, you'll like it.
>
> Praveen
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