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Java: Update also changes default search engine.

Author
Gray et al.
Date
11 Feb 2017
Type
Preselection
Publisher
UXP2 Lab

“When setting up java, the preselected “recommended” option actually changed the user’s default search engine to yahoo, which the user might not want. It also changes your homepage to yahoo.com.”

Oracle’s Java was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over its setup process. According to the entry, the preselected “recommended” option during installation changed the user’s default search engine to Yahoo, which the user might not want, and also changed their homepage to yahoo.com.

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