Bug 1378887 - Bing is the default search engine
Summary: Bing is the default search engine
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: thunderbird
Version: 7.3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jan Horak
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-23 13:03 UTC by Jiri Prajzner
Modified: 2020-01-07 08:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-01-07 08:53:43 UTC
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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)
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