Comment by zzo38computer

I think that they will need to fork the web browsers and maintain the forks instead of the originals, in order to make improvements. This is one of them but is not only one. To actually make the web browsers good, will require further changes (sometimes involving adding stuff back in that was removed in older versions, or removing some of the newly added stuff while keeping some of it).

However, I would prefer the default to be "no search", and to only search if the user explicitly specifies which search engine to use. (This does not necessarily mean that Debian has to do this; it only means that it is what would be my own preference. Some other people will agree with me, although some people will disagree.)

Regardless of the default settings though (sometimes different default settings might be suitable due to the distribution; in this case it doesn't matter, but for some settings of some programs, it will matter), the end user should have the opportunity to change all of the settings.