Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search

Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by WarOnPrivacy on Monday August 05, 2024 @03:38PM (#41164688)

> We face a number of challenges simply letting our paying customers change their search engine:

I use Kagi's extensions to maintain Kagi as default search across many devices and browsers. It's been seamless across Firefox/Waterfox/etc instances.

IIRC, Kiwi and Brave were fairly agreeable (I avoid Chrome, Edge). Opera was a pain because Opera is a pain about everything.

I appreciate the effort you+team have put into this.

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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by prophesi on Monday August 05, 2024 @03:57PM (#41164914)

I did have issues on Linux regarding the extension working in private windows due to the official Firefox extension being out-of-date. Using the latest Github release of their extension fixed it, and they promptly submitted the new update for it to propagate through the extension store after a ticket on their feedback forum asked about it.

Github releases with .xpi's to install have been removed[0] which is odd but hopefully they keep up with their Firefox extension submissions if this is the route they're going down.

As for Chrome, I only use it for automated/manual testing since that's what everyone uses.

[0] https://github.com/kagisearch/browser_extensions/releases

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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by hugh_kagi on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:32PM (#41165305)

We're definitely keeping the extensions going, just need to prioritise a few parts internally.

You can just git clone the new chrome extension and 'load unpacked' if that's of any use. It's extremely simple.

https://github.com/kagisearch/chrome_extension_basic

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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by prophesi on Monday August 05, 2024 @08:22PM (#41166812)

Any advice to Firefox users who want to do the same? I don't use Chrome or its derivatives.

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