Ubuntu start page for Firefox does not respect DuckDuckGo, Bing, Twitter, Amazon, eBay or Wikipedia default search setting

[d-d-2]

Ubuntu start page for Firefox displays a search box (and not much else), for either Yahoo or Google, if either of those searches are the user's default search option. For every other search option, the start page defaults to showing a Google search box.

I would really like to see a variant of the startpage for DuckDuckGo, which is an attractive search choice for me, but currently my start page just shows a Google search box.

I'd honestly be fine if they got rid of the Ubuntu start page entirely; "about:home" is fine and a bit nicer-looking IMO, even if it is saturated with Mozilla-ey-ness. Short of that, please respect the user's default search choice, and show a search box/logo for that search provider.

[Wen Jie (seowwjpg)]

Hi, thanks for taking the time to report this bug and comment on it. Unfortunately, your bug report is missing a few information.
Could you update the report with the following info?
1) Ubuntu version
2) Firefox version

[Wen Jie (seowwjpg)]

You can collect the information by opening Terminal and running the following command:
apport-collect 1420985

[Wen Jie (seowwjpg)]

Also, once you have collected the required information, you can help us by marking the bug status as 'Confirmed'. Thanks a lot!

[d-d-2 (dandromb)]

Hello,

I tried to use apport-collect, but I got an Info popup window. The title of the window was "Updating problem report", and the window had a lightbulb icon on it. The text on the window said "No additional information collected." There is a large "Close" button along the bottom of the window.

[d-d-2 (dandromb)]

Okay, so since that way didn't work, here is my current Ubuntu version and browser version:

Ubuntu 15.04

Firefox 43.0

I want to point out, this issue has been present for all Firefox versions, and all Ubuntu versions since I reported this bug.

I noticed the root cause of this issue: There are html pages hosted at ubuntu.com, with "hard-coded" Google or Yahoo search boxes, which show up as a user's Firefox homepage based on whether they are using Google or Yahoo as their default search engine. However, any other default search engine choice besides "Google" or "Yahoo" yields the Google search box page.

If one views the html source code of these pages, the search box is indeed "hard-coded" to direct searches to only one search provider, which would be either Google or Yahoo.

the urls for my version of Ubuntu are:

http://start.ubuntu.com/15.04/Google/?sourceid=hp

http://start.ubuntu.com/15.04/Yahoo/?sourceid=hp

See also:

http://start.ubuntu.com

(and related pages. For example: http://start.ubuntu.com redirects to http://start.ubuntu.com/current/Google/ . . . and http://start.ubuntu.com/current/[any text here other than "Yahoo"] also redirects to http://start.ubuntu.com/current/Google/)