Live Fedora start page proposal

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at redhat.com
Tue Aug 28 17:40:11 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:15 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:07 -0400, Donald Fischer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Here's why I think this simple change makes sense:
> > 
> >  * More useful to users.  The vast majority of the time when Fedora
> > users are launching a new browser, they're looking to do something
> on
> > the web, not to read the operating system release notes.  Thus,
> we've
> > proposed to put search front-and-center.
> 
> Isn't the search already on the search bar that defaults in firefox?
> 

Statistics show that a lot of people use the search bar, but they also
use the search in the home page.  A very large percentage.  It's very
useful to have it in the home page.  (This is coming from my Mozilla
experience with a search-powered home page, not Fedora-specific.)

--Chris




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