On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 02:55:39AM -0000, Paul A. Crable wrote: > Perhaps someone could help me here. On version 4.5.1 of the Tor (Firefox) > browser, the search field, to the right of the place to enter the URL, now > has a symbol on it that is proprietary to disconnect.me. I have also > found that while working on the WWW, from time to time a screen comes up > from direct.me asking me to enter search terms and to select the search > engine to use. > > It appears that disconnect.me has hijacked the search field in Foxfile, > and also found a way to interpose it's own search screen when URL's cannot > be found. I have done nothing to make this happen, and unfortunately > don't know what I can do to make it go away. > > Can anyone explain why this is happening? > > Until now the default search engine for Tor was Start Page, but that's > gone. Is Tor no longer using Start Page as the default search engine? > > I expect this kind of thing with a standard browser, but I thought Tor and > Foxfile had pretty well locked things down to prevent this kind of thing > happening.
Start Page was changed to disconnect.me in one of the latest releases as search engine by default. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
