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Default search engine in Ubuntu Firefox

Default search engine in Ubuntu Firefox

By Tom on February 19, 2010

Ubuntu will be switching their default search engine from Google to Yahoo in the next release (v10.04) because they have struck a deal where they will get a cut of the money made whenever a user clicks on a advert after doing a search. The only reason that this is interesting is that Yahoo search [...]

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Reminder to self – report bugs and ideas

Reminder to self – report bugs and ideas

By Tom on January 5, 2010

I need to remind myself that there’s no point whining about a shortfalling in a piece of software unless I can be sure the author is aware of it. To that effect, I filed a bug with the Chrome team: #31833. I also submitted a tiny patch for the Jodometer JQuery plugin.

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