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Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by dignan »

Kelet wrote: post #6
barista wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows 8 does this across machines

Argh, you replied just when I had deleted. Sorry. To anyone wondering my comment was saying that I couldn't find any service comparable to Google's sync last time I tried Firefox. Google's sync effortlessly syncs all machines tied to an account including bookmarks, extensions, and themes. I figured I'd try out the latest Firefox and see if I can get it working before I definitively make the comment. Thanks for the ti…

Firefox sync doesn't do the trick?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-sync-take-your-...

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by k-mcgrady »

binarymax wrote: post #8

I made the switch to DDG about 2 years ago and am pretty happy, though I do occasionally use the !g. Switched back to FF on my desktop a couple months ago when I got my keon and I love it. The only thing that's hard to get used to again is a search bar separate from an address bar. Chrome really had that figured out. A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.

When I was using Firefox I used this extension to unify the address/search bars.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by binarymax »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #12
binarymax wrote: post #8

I made the switch to DDG about 2 years ago and am pretty happy, though I do occasionally use the !g. Switched back to FF on my desktop a couple months ago when I got my keon and I love it. The only thing that's hard to get used to again is a search bar separate from an address bar. Chrome really had that figured out. A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.

When I was using Firefox I used this extension to unify the address/search bars. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/

Wow, thanks!

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by rschmitty »

binarymax wrote: post #8

I made the switch to DDG about 2 years ago and am pretty happy, though I do occasionally use the !g. Switched back to FF on my desktop a couple months ago when I got my keon and I love it. The only thing that's hard to get used to again is a search bar separate from an address bar. Chrome really had that figured out. A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.

You can search in the address bar just fine and change it to DDG: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-web-address-bar

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by epmatsw »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #12
binarymax wrote: post #8

I made the switch to DDG about 2 years ago and am pretty happy, though I do occasionally use the !g. Switched back to FF on my desktop a couple months ago when I got my keon and I love it. The only thing that's hard to get used to again is a search bar separate from an address bar. Chrome really had that figured out. A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.

When I was using Firefox I used this extension to unify the address/search bars. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/

Is this not default behavior? I've never had an addon installed, but just typing in a query and pressing enter in the URL routes it to Google...

Edit: Ah, I suppose the auto-complete is different.

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by fizz_and_buzz »

Hilyin wrote: post #7

My biggest problems with Firefox after using Chrome for so long is stability. I find that web pages can lock up the entire browser rather than just a tab, and this isn't just a rare occurrence, when I tried to give it a chance a week ago, it happened several times. I am amazed they still haven't picked up the separate process per tab feature yet.

Really? That seems odd. I have been using firefox on a 6 year old macbook pro for many years and mac is not exactly there best supported platform. I can't remember the last time this happened to me. Do you have a test case which can be replicated? What's your platform?

Re: Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

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Post by cupcake-unicorn »

I actually never ended up switching to Chrome from Firefox in the first place, but those are still good tips. I guess I did the right thing :)

Yes, it has a terrible memory leak issue, but all of my computers have enough ram as to not notice.

I'm still not ready to make the switch to DuckDuckGo. I figure that if I'm going to stick with Gmail no matter what, if Google already has that information, collecting a few search queries is nothing.

Also, perhaps I'm missing something, but as far as I can tell Chrome is at least partially open source, no? http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code

Why aren't people forking it to create a more privacy friendly version?

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