What's with requiring an Add-on to set a search engine URL?
I can't remove the "&t=ffab" query tag from the DuckDuckGo search. Presumably ffab is Firefox Address Bar.
Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
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I love the idea. Would you mind mind filing a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ ?
One more idea - any chance you guys are making a Firefox Focus for the desktop? It's great on mobile, would love a desktop version too!
It's just a content blocker + private browsing. Can get same functionality on desktop with private browsing and some ad blocker
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I agree. It's incredibly difficult to find anything that isn't a basic, low-value result when you're looking for advanced, detailed content. Maybe I'm looking up practices on how to write efficient SQL queries. All of the results I find are just slideshare presentations and basic blog posts on how to add an index to your select statement. It feels impossible to find depth nowadays, when everything that search engines…
Hi, I work on Google search. I'd be interested in any specific examples of queries that you think give worse results today than in the past.
I can't give you specific examples, but I occasionally google news stories trying to find sources, followups, or more information - only to be flooded with more copies of the exact same news story. And that only goes for stories I have a link for already; half-remembered stories are practically impossible to search for.
Re: Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
One more idea - any chance you guys are making a Firefox Focus for the desktop? It's great on mobile, would love a desktop version too!
It's just a content blocker + private browsing. Can get same functionality on desktop with private browsing and some ad blocker
Plus tab functionality removed, hence the name "focus".