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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by amelius on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:15AM (#15695680)
Still, Firefox could automatically switch to e.g. Duckduckgo whenever the user is in incognito mode.
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by Yoric on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:50PM (#15697372)
I love the idea. Would you mind mind filing a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/?
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by nkantar on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:26PM (#15697744)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411340
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by SkyMarshal on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:20PM (#15701219)
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!
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by deftturtle on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:06AM (#15710556)
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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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by SkyMarshal on Saturday November 25, 2017 @12:53AM (#15774635)
Plus tab functionality removed, hence the name "focus".
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by Yoric on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @02:06AM (#15701971)
(I should add that, while I work at Mozilla this is my personal view, not Mozilla's official view, yada, yada)
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by Skylled on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:19PM (#15697655)
Their privacy-focused mobile browser, Firefox Focus, defaults to DDG.
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by oatmealsnap on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:24AM (#15695767)
That's a great idea, along with a message explaining why.
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by talmand on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:28AM (#15695808)
Well, they could, but I would assume a contract with Google would prevent that.
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by luckystarr on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:20AM (#15696361)
Could. We don't know what's in this contract.
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by s17n on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:26AM (#15696425)
Pretty sure Google doesn't circumvent incognito so what's the point?
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by fenwick67 on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:27PM (#15697134)
Google certainly tracks people by their IP address, so your privacy is lesser with Google as your search engine than DDG.
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by amelius on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:51PM (#15697975)
Not only that, but it also raises awareness of private search engines with the general audience.
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by s17n on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:54PM (#15698002)
Are you sure? I thought they didn't do this.
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Re:Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the... by yuhong on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:25PM (#15698778)
Though keep in mind it dates back to 2004.
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