first (quick?) issue for the council -- fedora's default firefox page

[Garrett Holmstrom]

On Nov 26, 2014 12:25 PM, "Matthew Miller" <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 02:14:38PM -0600, inode0 wrote:
> > As a user, not sure how typical or atypical a user I am, I find
> > programs that take me places I don't ask to go a bit unfriendly and I
> > would prefer the about:newtab default with start.fp.o pinned to it
> > initially to be the nicer solution from an end user experience
> > perspective.
>
> For perspective: The first time you open Firefox, it starts with a
> "Welcome to Firefox" page, loaded from mozilla.org, and the home page
> in a second tab. (In F21 and rawhide, start.fp.o pinned, along with ads
> -- currently from booking.com -- and other Mozilla-slected links.) So
> unless we make _additional_ changes, it's already taking you somewhere.

In that case, if the firefox package winds up sticking with about:newtab
then I would argue that the welcome page should also go away for the sake
of consistency.

That said, since data seem to indicate that start.fp.o is useful to a
number of people I am inclined to believe it is worth keeping.

--
Garrett Holmstrom
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