As you might have seen in the newsgroups or on the Mozilla blog, there's a couple of changes to search engines planned for the 4.0 release for en-US: <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.l10n/msg/81073d8d67e1c4c3>. We would like to use this opportunity to review the current productization setup for Japanese and make any changes that you think will be good for our users. What is a productization review? ================================ Here's what we're interested in: * search engines, * protocol handlers, * feed readers, * live bookmark. You can see what your locale currently ships with at <http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n/l10n-src-verification/file/default/reference/browser/2.0/ja> Please take a moment and review the choice of services available by default in your locale. If there have been any new services that have recently gained popularity and that offer good value for the users, please suggest adding them to your locale. On the other hand, if there are services that lost credibility (e.g. display too many adds) or have poor user experience, consider suggesting that we remove them. If in doubt, feel free to make a suggestion and we'll look at it together. You might find the guidelines at <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Productization> and <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox/Productization> helpful, too. Required changes ================ There's two things I would like to draw your attention to (if applicable): 1) if you have a google.xml file in your `searchplugins` directory, please remove it, 2) Bloglines is closing down on November 1st and we need to remove it from the feed reader options for all locales (see bug 595485). We suspect that it will make sense to move Google Reader up to the first position (if your locale has it). We will be offering technical help with this change, either in form of ready-made patches or a mass-landing by one of the l10n-drivers. If you don't think that moving Google Reader up is a good idea for your locale, please let us know! Changes in en-US and en-GB ========================== Here's the changes that we will be making in en-US and en-GB: * add Bing as the 3rd general search engine (see bug 603298), * remove Answers, * remove Creative Commons. We're making these changes in en-US and en-GB because we feel that they follow the recent market trends and user preferences in the US and the UK. We would like to go through the same thought process for your locale and see if any of these changes would make sense in Japanese builds as well. If you decide that implementing these changes would be in your users' best interest then please go ahead and include them in the patch you'll attach to this bug. Implementation ============== Please make suggestions for changes and attach patches that Seth, Axel or I will review. Please note that since Bing provides a global plugin which does the locale detection itself, you will only need to add "bing" to your list.txt if you decide to include it. The XML file will be automatically pulled from en-US. Once a review is granted, you can land the patch on l10n-central if your locale actively maintains it. Otherwise, please wait for further instructions which will be put in the comments of this bug and announced in mozilla.dev.l10n (we're still unsure when the branching will happen). Please do not land any changes except for the required ones (google.xml, Bloglines) on 1.9.2. If you do not wish to make any changes, let us know, and we'll only work on removing Bloglines. Thanks!

Apparently bloglines and another service, hatena, got removed in bug 595488, without review, though.

I'm sorry for my clumsy way. However, I haven't signed-off for Firefox 3.5/3.6 yet.

(In reply to comment #1) > Apparently bloglines and another service, hatena, got removed in bug 595488, > without review, though. Removing those services is not related to this bug aka Firefox 4. * Removing Bloglines is tracked by Bug 595485 and Bug 609824. * Hatena RSS has come to the EOL long ago.

This bug is about productization reviews for the 1.9.2 branch and mozilla-central. Stas probably could have given it a better name, so I edited it for him. If you read through comment 0, you can see explicit requests to change 1.9.2. Thanks, guys. Please attach all patches and flag me for review here.

Thanks Seth. It's true, the original wording of the bug's summary might have been confusing, sorry for that. I marked bug 595488 as fixed (Bloglines and Hatena were removed from all branches). See y comment in there about first submitting a patch and waiting for a review before you land (pretty please :) Are there any other changes you would like to make in Firefox 4.0 regarding search engines or protocol and content handlers? Feel free to let us know!

I am resolving this bug as fixed since the Bloglines change was fixed in bug 595488. If you'd like to make some changes to your locale's productization elements for Firefox 4, please reopen this bug. But, do not hesitate since we are closing in on a release candidate and will not take p12n changes after that point.

We have to remove Creative Commons from the search engine list. No other changes are planned at this time.

Any progress on removing Creative Commons?

mar-san: can you create and get reviewed a patch to remove CC?

We don't have xml file for the CreativeCommons. So, just removed from the list. This patch should be applied to both ja and ja-JP-mac.

Comment on attachment 512724 [details] [diff] [review] remove CreativeCommons from searchplugins list Please land this change and then sign off.

done. http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/ja/rev/3e02f739a8b9 http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/ja-JP-mac/rev/f4fe098cf5bf

Thanks!