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Include search engines that support free software and privacy  
Written by gQuigs the 9 Jun 11 at 04:17. Won't implement
Currently Ubuntu provides the default Firefox search engines. It makes sense to be more strategic about who we give search engine real estate to. We are promoting them, by providing them by default.

At the very least we could get ride of Bing, a direct competitor and the key company behind bug #1. Others might be good to remove in the future as well.
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Solution #1: Provide Duck Duck Go instead of Bing
Written by gQuigs the 9 Jun 11 at 04:17.
Duck Duck Go is a great search engine that is very powerful. It also respects your privacy (http://donttrack.us/).

From the FAQ - Is DDG open source?
Some of it. It's also largely built with "FOSS". We also give 10% of our income to FOSS. Check out this years donations.
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/duck-duck-go-architecture.html
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/help-me-start-a-foss-tithing-moveme nt.html

Please give it a try at http://duckduckgo.com.
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Solution #2: Instead of promoting any one, and given option of selecting during first startup
Written by benoyanthony the 8 Oct 11 at 12:26.
Instead of promoting anyone , we can give user an option to select from some 10 or more search engine, during his first starup of the browser

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 29 Mar 12 at 20:58) >>

Scroll hook function  
Written by Doenietwil the 9 Jun 10 at 16:14. New
On Microsoft's Windows, if you hold the scroll wheel in a browser you get this symbol http://www.plaatjesupload.nl/bekijk/2010/06/09/1276090236-40.png . It's to scroll fast by moving the mous in the direction you want, the more distance the faster it will move you. I've never seen a thing like this in ubuntu, and i really use this a lot. It could be either browser-only or you could put it in the whole OS wich would be awesome.
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Solution #1: A new mouse feature
Written by Doenietwil the 9 Jun 10 at 16:14.
Build it so it can be used in browsers or other programs. Maybe you could even make an customizable icon.
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Solution #2: Put an option to enable it in Mouse Preferences.
Written by lvxferre the 12 Jun 10 at 10:39.
Fast scrolling is a nice feature to have, even if redundant with PageUp and PageDown scrolling.

But middle-button click is already used in Linux environments to quickly paste the selected text.

So, let user choose between one or another behaviour in System > Preferences > Mouse.
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Solution #3: Scroll hook for trackpads
Written by truth14ful the 1 Jul 10 at 22:06.
For a laptop's trackpad, if it has a scrollbar on the side, you should be able to double-click it and either paste quickly or use a scroll hook (depending on #2)
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Solution #4: Left click + scroll leads to fast scroll inside windows
Written by benoyanthony the 7 Jul 10 at 11:51.
We need to implement feature which while mouse left click + scroll is rolled it should start fast scrolling inside window.

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 12 Oct 10 at 01:24) >>