Consider offering to set users' home pages to our version of google home page

[myleshorton]

Similar to Firefox's about:home.

[cholmes]

@myleshorton What is our version of google home page?

[lanterndev]

It doesn't exist yet.

I vote moving out of the tracker until it to becomes higher priority.

[cholmes]

Sounds good. Closing. Feel free to add as an idea on the roadmap. And hopefully describe it, since I still don't get what it would do.

[lanterndev]

Open up a fresh install of Firefox and you'll see the default homepage has
a google search box but with Firefox branding. The idea was to make a
Lantern homepage that did the same thing. Though I'd advocate for using
duckduckgo instead of Google, unless they start paying us for pageviews or
something.

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Sounds good. Closing. Feel free to add as an idea on the roadmap. And
hopefully describe it, since I still don't get what it would do.

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[myleshorton]

Yeah that's really the point -- Google pays FireFox for every search that
goes from that home page!

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:06 PM, skivvies notifications@github.com wrote:

Open up a fresh install of Firefox and you'll see the default homepage has
a google search box but with Firefox branding. The idea was to make a
Lantern homepage that did the same thing. Though I'd advocate for using
duckduckgo instead of Google, unless they start paying us for pageviews or
something.

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Sounds good. Closing. Feel free to add as an idea on the roadmap. And
hopefully describe it, since I still don't get what it would do.

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[lanterndev]

I figured as much. :)

This feels like it would go along with a broader effort to integrate
Lantern more inside the browser. Like once we have a Lantern Chrome
extension, that's the time to offer to change the homepage to Lantern's, so
it doesn't feel like Lantern is changing things in apps it doesn't already
have a visible presence.

For future discussion.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:08 PM, myleshorton notifications@github.comwrote:

Yeah that's really the point -- Google pays FireFox for every search that
goes from that home page!

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:06 PM, skivvies notifications@github.com
wrote:

Open up a fresh install of Firefox and you'll see the default homepage
has
a google search box but with Firefox branding. The idea was to make a
Lantern homepage that did the same thing. Though I'd advocate for using
duckduckgo instead of Google, unless they start paying us for pageviews
or
something.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Chris Holmes notifications@github.comwrote:

Sounds good. Closing. Feel free to add as an idea on the roadmap. And
hopefully describe it, since I still don't get what it would do.

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[cholmes]

Cool. When I get to roadmap stuff I'll put this under a broader 'browser integration' item, where we can discuss the ideas and then prioritize.