multisearch breaks New tab->about:blank

While I don't usually do this.... +1. Not terribly nice for a random update to suddenly fiddle with my firefox!

Thanks for the bug.

Could you please give more information on why you consider the blank newtab better?

Also, would it be better if you could easily make the newtab page "blank" again?

its easy enough (at least for me) to disable via addon (is it even done there?)
My main dislike of this, is that it changed an expected behavior, change the relation new tab has with HomePage, and that i dont make use of Custom Search

I thought reasons for disliking this choice should have been very clear to people who develop free software, as this is not the case, let me see if I can provide a good explanation.

I consider the blank newtab better than a google custom search, because I did not ask for a custom search anywhere, the returned results are worse than the default google ones in many senses (localization, lack of maps, images, and conversions) and it seems that my new ubuntu is trying to force me to use the custom search.

I would prefer a less invasive system. I do not even know if my requests are received and eventually stored by ubuntu. I am already concerned with my privacy when I search using google. Having an even smaller, and closer to me entity see my searches is making the situation worse and is worrying me about why ubuntu is actually trying to force me to use the custom search.

I may be judged paranoid, but the fact that I did not receive any reply when I asked about reasons for the custom google search (months ago) on the ubuntu-devel mailing list certainly worries me more.

I think the above is short and clear enough, even if the question was probably not directed to me. I raised the issue again on the same mailing list.

I am marking this as a duplicate of bug #402767 because that bug is all about suggestions on the added feature.

not a dupe because this is a separate point referring to a different feature.

No John this is not a dupe. its similar, but not the same thing, even if related to the same package.

Here are a few sites that may help.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multisearch
http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/162-What-is-this-Multisearch-thing-in-my-Firefox-about.html

If not removed altogether it will not be released in its current form.

This bug was fixed in the package firefox-3.0 - 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu3

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firefox-3.0 (3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  * good-bye "Multisearch"; we remove our karmic alpha3 experiment called
    "Multisearch" as we are approaching alpha4 (LP: #402767, #402804, #406893,
     #410997, #408484, #403246)
    - remove <email address hidden>/...
    - update debian/firefox-3.0.install
    - update debian/rules

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:14:32 +0200

This was never on firefox-3.5