Make a "DuckDuckGo as default search engine" add-on

duckduckgo / duckduckgo-privacy-extension

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.

https://duckduckgo.com/app

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Make a "DuckDuckGo as default search engine" add-on #140

Open davidhedlund opened 6 years ago

davidhedlund commented 6 years ago

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials adds DuckDuckGo as default search engine but a lot of users don't want the rest of the features.

Usefulness:

Firefox Sync -- The default search engine preferences is not saved so you have to manually configure this.
DuckDuckGo is the default search engine in the web browser GNU IceCat (which will be based on Firefox 57 in a few months) -- it could use the requested add-on instead of maintaining the source code.

Examples of existing add-ons that change the default search engine:

rootvalues commented 6 years ago

Hi. I've created a repo in response to this: https://github.com/rootvalues/duckduckgo-default

davidhedlund commented 6 years ago

@rootvalues Thank you for taking your time. Can you please ask the DDG developers if you can merge it to https://github.com/duckduckgo/ ? It will get most users if it's released by the DuckDuckGo company.

rootvalues commented 6 years ago

@alohaas @russellholt Requesting to merge https://github.com/rootvalues/duckduckgo-default to https://github.com/duckduckgo/

davidhedlund commented 6 years ago

@rootvalues Excellent. I'll ask the GNU IceCat developer to add and enable your add-on to the default browser profile if the DDG people upload it to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/duckduckgo/#my-submissions

davidhedlund commented 6 years ago

@rootvalues Is it possible for you to make a Git request?

rootvalues commented 6 years ago

@davidhedlund I don't think its possible to request to add a repository to DuckDuckGo's profile without developer permission.

willemavjc commented 4 years ago

@rootvalues Question for you if I may:

Like many others from what I'm reading over the web, I am personally not enjoying this hijacking and would like to be free to choose my search engine, whatever the reason behind that is (accuracy, mood, ...).

Am I correct if I say that this part is responsible for the search engine hijacking?

"chrome_settings_overrides": {
        "search_provider": {
            "encoding": "UTF-8",
            "name": "DuckDuckGo",
            "search_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}",
            "keyword": "duckduckgo.com",
            "favicon_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico",
            "suggest_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list",
            "is_default": true
          }
}

If so, can I change it somewhere? (From Chrome/Edge or within some file on disk.)

Thanks!

Got my response by giving it a try. Published the procedure here: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension/issues/90#issuecomment-646094340