Java: Update also changes default search engine

Interface Interference Preselection

Culprit

Oracle's Java

Found

6 years ago


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.

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