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https://duckduckgo.com/settings#appearance Uncheck the very last option "Site Icons"
I'm assuming that doesn't affect the browser, which is what this issue relates to.
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Disagree on most points, actually: >Faster, less bloat Stock Firefox doesn't actually have that much bloat, and it's not noticeably slower than Chrome on reasonably modern hardware (i.e.: most page loads are near-instant, same as in Chrome on a good connection). >Extension support for Chromium is way better too Until Google decides that your extension is unworthy of being in their store. This notably happened with Pu…
As I said in other another comment, I'm a power user. And by power user I mean probably 10x the normal standard of what a 10x power user means. Tooling is everything to me; which is why I prefer this over anything else. I'm very biased.
People here are:
- early developers from majir browsers
- extension creators
- creators of major web properties
- people who spend their work days on the web
- etc
seriously. Don't underestimate HN.
Edit: and as someone who's been very into customizing and extending browsers since early Firefox: your ideas about Firefox vs Chrome tells me that you are either
- deeply biased
- use a subset of browser features that is too small to realize the problems with Chromium (in which case I suspect your 100x superuser is wild hyperbole)
You can come back when Tree Style Tabs including related sub-extensions works as well on Chrome as on Firefox.
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I think you're being downvoted because you chose to piggyback your comment on a seemingly unrelated one at the top, are being vitriolic, and didn't back up your claims with respect to their intent and refusal to change this.
Well it's related because Mozilla actually cares about your privacy vs DuckDuckGo which obviously could care less from their reaction to this issue. Their refusal to change this is all the proof you need to know. I dont even use DDG I use Google I just think its funny they have a "Privacy browser" that sends all the sites you visit back to their servers
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Route icons.duckduckgo.com to null. Sidenote: The more I use pi-hole the more I realise how essential it is!
Is there a difference between using pi-hole and edinting etc host on Windows? I've heard about pi-hole but I'm not sure what it does exactly.
DuckDuckGo staff here. As mentioned in the linked page, the purpose of the request is to retrieve a website's favicon so that it can be displayed in certain places within the app or on the results page. We use an internal favicon service because it can be complicated to locate a favicon for a website. They can be stored in a variety of locations and in a variety of formats. The service understands these edge cases an…
Maybe I'm too old for this, but wasn't a favicon supposed to be located at "fancy.url/favicon.ico", or alternatively as a " "? Curious to know why this is an issue.
An online favicon generator will create these variations
Nonetheless, the browser can see this when parsing the page and choose the appropriate path.
DuckDuckGo staff here. As mentioned in the linked page, the purpose of the request is to retrieve a website's favicon so that it can be displayed in certain places within the app or on the results page. We use an internal favicon service because it can be complicated to locate a favicon for a website. They can be stored in a variety of locations and in a variety of formats. The service understands these edge cases an…
Edit: I'm speculating here. But specifically because of the way you've replied here and on Github, my actual level of trust in DDG team went down.
DuckDuckGo staff here. As mentioned in the linked page, the purpose of the request is to retrieve a website's favicon so that it can be displayed in certain places within the app or on the results page. We use an internal favicon service because it can be complicated to locate a favicon for a website. They can be stored in a variety of locations and in a variety of formats. The service understands these edge cases an…
Maybe I'm too old for this, but wasn't a favicon supposed to be located at "fancy.url/favicon.ico", or alternatively as a " "? Curious to know why this is an issue.
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Take the code from Firefox iOS or Android-components. We spent a lot of time on these and it is all on device. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/Firefox-iOS
I wonder how many lines of code from big open source applications are generic enough to be reused in other projects. Firefox and Google Chrome probably have the equivalent of many small high quality libraries embedded in them, implementing 'business' logic or protocols, that could be reused in more places. I guess a large scale study on github could be done, with a graph analysis to show potential "cut off" points in…
It’s a bit telling that they linked to the GitHub repositories rather than specific lines of code they were talking about.
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Because it's the easiest (and sometimes only) way to get this functionality on major browsers and browser developers have no plans to implement this functionality natively.
Both Firefox and Chrome have custom search keywords: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address... I maintain a set of such keywords in my Firefox, that I use on iOS and Android too. The easiest would be to just use Google btw, as it does a reasonable job to give you the website you're thinking of just by mentioning it in the search query, e.g "Frozen imdb" (though it does a perfect job in this case…
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Well it's related because Mozilla actually cares about your privacy vs DuckDuckGo which obviously could care less from their reaction to this issue. Their refusal to change this is all the proof you need to know. I dont even use DDG I use Google I just think its funny they have a "Privacy browser" that sends all the sites you visit back to their servers
It is not relevant to this sub-thread, and should have been a new top-level comment.