Comment 51 for bug 402767
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| Jared Biel (sylvester-0) wrote Re: multisearch add on blocks the functionality of firefox location bar | #51 |
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I appologize for not reading this entire bug report because I feel vehement about posting my opinion on the plugin. I realize that some of my concerns may have been addressed already. I am merely posting them as another "vote" for how bad of an idea this plugin is.
Please obliterate this plugin. It's nothing short of infuriating and it should not see the light of day in Karmic final. Here's what is wrong with this plugin:
1. It makes it practically impossible to get any work done using the search box. If I type "rack server" into the search box my beloved additional search options aren't there. No more links to take me to the images or shopping sections of Google.
2. There are two options at the top of the page after performing a custom search - "Ubuntu Start Page (b)" and "Web Search". Now, one would think that selecting "Web Search" and clicking the search button would take me to the Google I know and love. Nope - it takes me to a page that's almost identical to the "Ubuntu Start Page (b)"!
3. I hate the new tab behavior. If I'm creating a new tab to search for something I will do Ctrl-T then Ctrl-K. I don't need a gimpy version of Google to be loaded every time I create a new tab. I'm a Google person myself, but I could see how that would offend someone who uses Yahoo, etc as their search engine.
4. It's not immediately obvious on how to disable the behavior. I thought it was perhaps a customization done to the search toolbar and tried digging around to find the search engine settings.
If you don't kill this plugin with fire, please, please, please don't include it by default. I can't imagine there are many people that expect/desire the behavior offered by this plugin.
I appologize for the angry rant tone, but I feel very strongly about this and I believe it will turn a lot of people off of Ubuntu. It frustrated the heck out of me and I've been using Linux since 1999. Get off my lawn!
Note: I am NOT currently using Firefox 3.5. This plugin came enabled by default when I installed Karmic daily about a month ago with the included version of Firefox (3.0.X).
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