Bug 1378887

Summary: Bing is the default search engine
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Jiri Prajzner <jprajzne>
Component: thunderbirdAssignee: Jan Horak <jhorak>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.3CC: cschalle, jan.public
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Description Jiri Prajzner 2016-09-23 13:03:12 UTC
Description of problem:
Bing, owned by Microsoft is the default search engine in Thunderbird.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
45.3.0

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. clik thunderbird menu > Preferences > Preferences
2. Default Search Engine
3.

Actual results:
Bing is set by default

Expected results:
Yahoo | Wikipedia or build in different search provider such as duckduckgo

Additional info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing

Comment 2 Jiri Prajzner 2018-07-11 12:25:47 UTC
still present in rhel 7.6 and thunderbird 52.8.0.1

Comment 3 Jiri Prajzner 2020-01-07 08:53:43 UTC
fixed in thunderbird-68.3.0-1.el7_7.x86_64 & Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.8 Beta (Maipo)