pale moon Pale Moon To Remove Google Search Completely - Updated

[vissha]

Pale Moon To Remove Google Search Completely

 

The Pale Moon development team announced on August 11, 2016 that it will remove Google Search completely from the web browser.

 

As a user of Pale Moon you are probably aware that the team changed the default search engine used on the browser's start page to DuckDuckGo from Google Search.

 

The move made sense from a consistency point of view, considering that DuckDuckGo had been the default search engine for some time in Pale Moon.

 

That was not the only reason however why the team made the decision to switch the search engine of the browser's start page to DuckDuckgo.

 

According to the announcement, another reason for making the change was a conflict with Google over policy violations on the start page.

 

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As you may know, the search engine traffic on that start page is a big portion of what gives me the income to make Pale Moon work at no cost to its users. Unfortunately Google has been pretty much cutting me off with claiming it is "invalid traffic" and that it would be a policy violation just because the browser is downloadable software.

 

Users who prefer Google over DuckDuckGo could switch to Google using the pulldown menu, or simply change the homepage of the browser to google.com as the new start page.

 

 

This was not the end of the story though for the Pale Moon team. Three days later, the team stated that it made the decision to remove Google Search completely from Pale Moon.

 

Further communication with Google's ad traffic quality team caused the issue to escalate.

 

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As a follow-up to the problems indicated in our previous announcement, Google's "Ad Traffic Quality Team" has decided to interpret their policies that are geared to preventing toolbars and external programs from changing user settings for home pages and similar as "you may not have a Google Search box on the default home page", basically trying to determine for us what our out-of-the-box-experience (OOBE) should be.

 

Pale Moon's solution to Google trying to force them to modify the out of box experience is a complete removal of Google Search from the browser. This has not happened yet, and it is unclear how the removal will look like.

 

Pale Moon users may still go to Google and run searches manually there, or use the !g bang of DuckDuckGo to redirect searches to google.

 

We asked Moonchild, owner and lead developer of Pale Moon and will update the post as soon as we get an answer.

 

Update: Moonchild told us that users will still be able to add Google Search manually to the browser by adding it as a search plugin to Pale Moon. Also, users are free to set the home page to any address they want, including Google's.

 

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[Kalju]

The best is to remove completely whole Pale Moon from memory for ever.

[Petrovic]

Google Search to be removed from Pale Moon

Despite the general popularity of Google Search as an option in Pale Moon, we have been forced to make a hard decision to remove Google Search completely from anything in Pale Moon.

As a follow-up to the problems indicated in our previous announcement, Google's "Ad Traffic Quality Team" has decided to interpret their policies that are geared to preventing toolbars and external programs from changing user settings for home pages and similar as "you may not have a Google Search box on the default home page", basically trying to determine for us what our out-of-the-box-experience (OOBE) should be.

In lieu of giving Google control over our design choices, we are removing Google Search as an option entirely, both from the start page and from within the browser.

Solution if you want to use Google for searches: Use the DuckDuckGo search bar, and prefix your search with "!g" to redirect your search to Google.
Example:

!g new furniture

will redirect the DDG search query to Google and you will get Google search results.

DDG has many shortcuts like that (called "bangs") that give you many options to redirect searches.
For more information about this, see: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

via Forum PaleMoon

[steven36]

33 minutes ago, Kalju said:

The best is to remove completely whole Pale Moon from memory for ever.

I fell this way about Google Chrome best to forget it exist   Linux Mint Firefox dont have Google ether and i use there search  sometimes.. its very too easy to add back  with these plugins

http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html

Palemoon would be a good browser  if the fix there promise bug  and a few other things i will test it again once the next version  comes out of beta.

 

Google was on moonchild about adding safe browsing  back to his browser . so i dont blame him for dropping it  .safe browsing  is nothing but pseudo security they use to track you and give false positives .

[Kalju]

Good is what people like. I also like to use sometimes such weird old things.
For example, I like so far Spotmau PowerSuite 2012 Boot Disk. It contains partition manager, partition wipe, recover, boot files recover function, internet connection, etc.
Most important, it must work and You must know, how it works. So I use also sometimes Pale Moon, but very rarely.

[steven36]

47 minutes ago, Kalju said:

Good is what people like. I also like to use sometimes such weird old things.

I dont like browsers at all really the newer the version is the more features they remove none of them listen to there users and they all have problems with privacy leaks  that's why  once Firefox 38 EsR stop updateing i no longer update Firefox  they broke a lot of things in the new ESR  . I also have Slimjet  in case i run into something that don't work right in  my old CF browser  . It would be great if the new version of Palemoon can do everything i wanted but im not going to bet on it .

[Skunk1966]

I still prefer Palemoon over any other browser

Sometimes it's pretty hard to find addon forks that I like but once you know where to find them I can set it up the way I like

[steven36]

1 hour ago, Skunk1966 said:

I still prefer Palemoon over any other browser

Sometimes it's pretty hard to find addon forks that I like but once you know where to find them I can set it up the way I like

i use certain user scripts and were grease monkey not been updated in ages for it.  it has problems with promises and i have use a user script called false promise to make it work and still it dont work 100% . If they fix it were i could update grease monkey id use it.

[Skunk1966]

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i use certain user scripts and were grease monkey not been updated in ages for it.

same here; greasemonkey for palemoon is still v3.6