Ubuntu Gets Firefox Update to Correct Default Search Engine Switching to Yahoo

Posted by thesilviu on Aug 21, 2015 2:09 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Canonical has just upgraded the Firefox packages in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems after a regression has been identified. From the looks of it, the default search engine was set to Yahoo.

Regressions happen all the time, and they are often caught by developers in time. Having the default search engine modified by the upgrade is not a big problem, but it's enough to make devs and maintainers release a new version of the web browsers. A reader pointed out the upgrade that landed in the repos and we have a little bit more information about the problem than what is mentioned in the security notice.

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