Want to use the Ubuntu Yahoo! Start Page? You still can!

By , Published April 29, 2010

Earlier on this year Ubuntu made Yahoo! search the default in Ubuntu Firefox. This was short-lived and a switch back to Google soon occurred.

Yahoo!-ites who would rather use the official Ubuntu start page, but with Yahoo!, still can!image

Check it out @ http://start.ubuntu.com/10.04/Yahoo/ €“ and if you like Yahoo! why not set it as your home page?

(No, http://start.ubuntu.com/10.04/bing/ doesn't work :P )

Thanks to mehd36

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    NO. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE UBUNTU YAHOO START PAGE.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Yes. Yes you do.

      (except you’re right – you don’t.)

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZCKHVTP4QZOFR3PR2AB6FE7VJ4 Dexter

      Well there are some people out there that still do. One of those people being me.

  • http://www.tuxbelito.com.ar/ Sr. Luzbel
  • Mohan

    Actually if you have about:home as your homepage, you will get Yahoo! start page if you have Yahoo! as search in the search box, if you have Google then you will get a Google start page. Before the switch back to Google if had anything other than Google or Yahoo! you be default to Yahoo! start page now you can nice error, so if you have Wikipedia then you get a error saying there is not Wikipedia start page. :)

  • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

    Maybe I will use it. As much as I love Google Products, they have become a bit cocky lately – a good dose ‘of maybe I’ll use something else’ wouldn’t hurt now would it ?

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZCKHVTP4QZOFR3PR2AB6FE7VJ4 Dexter

      I’m with you with that.

  • z111a

    why can’t I see the reflection of the bottom icons?

    • Anonymous

      I was wondering this, too.

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        Oh sorry guys – that was just a fancy pants effect to make the image look nice in the post.

        • Anonymous

          Ha! Oh. Perhaps add a border around the image to make it look nice? That orange or purple would be a good choice. :)

        • z111a

          LOL ;P

  • vishnumrao

    Thanks for the tip! I love your blog! Sometimes comical, but mostly fun to read and useful tips too! Keep the blog flowing.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Thank you :D

  • Anonymous

    Hahah, bing redirects to google search engine. Smart move redirection tag, smart move.

  • Anonymous

    People still use Yahoo!?

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZCKHVTP4QZOFR3PR2AB6FE7VJ4 Dexter

      I use it.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZCKHVTP4QZOFR3PR2AB6FE7VJ4 Dexter

    I am glad I can still use this homepage because I Still use Yahoo! as my default search engine. Every time I download Firefox the first thing I change is the search engine to Yahoo!.

  • Harlequin Guy

    The reason for making Yahoo the default was so Canonical would earn a few cents per search. Does this still happen if we use -this- start page? If not, I wouldn’t use Yahoo at gun-point..