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this. the "improved" image search is terrible. very finicky and even hard to use--hardly simple. re: ddg. regular user, but as others have pointed out already the ajax load for results is annoying (because it's slow and flashy/jerky).
Note we now have html (non-js) & lite versions at http://duckduckgo.com/html & http://duckduckgo.com/lite
excellent, just appended '/html' to the default browser search engine url.
would be great if instead of having to use specific urls that this could be set up as a preference in settings. still, i'm a happy camper :)