Hey all,
This is a confusing change, and some of the details are still being wrapped up and finalized, so we can't clarify everything just yet, but I'll try to make a stab with the data that I know ATM.
- First, the search bar still exists because it's the most heavily used search location in Firefox. Most users don't realize that you can search using the URL bar, and while the new:tab page has an awesome search feature, a lot of users don't ever see that page, or they don't spend a lot of time on it. While the lack of user understanding is probably a failure on our part around education, it's not something we are going to fix overnight. If you don't like or want the search bar there, feel free to remove it :)
- As for Canada, they will be getting Yahoo! as the default, AFAIK. More details coming on this, but since we don't have a Canada specific EN-US build, they will get all the changes going into EN-US
- The new search UI will be awesome for a lot of reasons, biggest is that this is something that we were never able to do before, but that really makes search more valuable for users.
- There is still some confusion as to what will happen to users who currently have Google set as their default. What I can tell you is that if you don't want to use Yahoo you can always switch back to Google.
I hope this helps, and sorry for the incomplete information. Hopefully we will have more as the week moves on.
Hey all,
This is a confusing change, and some of the details are still being wrapped up and finalized, so we can't clarify everything just yet, but I'll try to make a stab with the data that I know ATM.
* First, the search bar still exists because it's the most heavily used search location in Firefox. Most users don't realize that you can search using the URL bar, and while the new:tab page has an awesome search feature, a lot of users don't ever see that page, or they don't spend a lot of time on it. While the lack of user understanding is probably a failure on our part around education, it's not something we are going to fix overnight. If you don't like or want the search bar there, feel free to remove it :)
* As for Canada, they will be getting Yahoo! as the default, AFAIK. More details coming on this, but since we don't have a Canada specific EN-US build, they will get all the changes going into EN-US
* The new search UI will be awesome for a lot of reasons, biggest is that this is something that we were never able to do before, but that really makes search more valuable for users.
* There is still some confusion as to what will happen to users who currently have Google set as their default. What I can tell you is that if you don't want to use Yahoo you can always switch back to Google.
I hope this helps, and sorry for the incomplete information. Hopefully we will have more as the week moves on.
