[whatwg] Proposal for IsSearchProviderInstalled / AddSearchProvider

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Tue Feb 15 13:54:25 PST 2011


* Kornel Lesi?ski wrote:
>Change of default search engine may have security implications — there are  
>less tech-savvy people who rely on search engine for *everything* they do  
>on the net and blindly trust the results (see famous "facebook login"  
>case).

(There are in fact many people who do not know what the address bar
might be for and put any address they want to go to into the input field
of the engine they are using; for some value of "many", I personally
know several.)
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