Set up https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ as my default search engine
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@cwebber
I did a while ago, it's so much better this way!

(For people who don't know, the full string to set is "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s")

%s at DuckDuckGo

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@silvermoon82 @cwebber This string does not work for me when there is a / in the searched string....
@R1Rail @cwebber
Oh, weird! I've boosted to a bunch of nerds, and Christine has lots of nerdly followers, hopefully someone out there knows the fix.
@silvermoon82 @cwebber I suspect the / is not encoded by firefox inside the %s. But I rarely look for somethig with a /

How to switch away from Google as your default search engine right now!

Right click in the search box you want to add in Firefox, pick "Add search engine". So do that for the search box on https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

You can then select this search box as your default search inside of settings.

You're welcome! You can add all sorts of "search engines" this way!

@R1Rail @silvermoon82

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@R1Rail @silvermoon82 This is great if you search a particular wiki pretty often, etc

@cwebber @R1Rail @silvermoon82

I've heard lots of people use Wikipedia as their primary search engine for example. I've thought about trying it out, but it probably wouldn't work for the way I search. Interesting workflow though imo 

@boo_ @cwebber @R1Rail
I use it as a secondary search engine; Vivaldi (and probably other browsers) let you set a shortcut, so searching eg. "Thingy" goes to ddg, but "w! Thingy" goes directly to Wikipedia.

@silvermoon82 @cwebber @R1Rail

Librewolf (Firefox) has that as well! I use it quite a bit when looking for the package versions on distros my friends use, like @fedora [pkg] or @ubuntu [pkg]. DDG also has that built in but I use Ecosia on some computers so I also appreciate having it in browser :)