Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by pbhjpbhj on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:21PM (#8743309)

I tried DDG for a while (a month, but probably a year ago now) but found I was always doing "!g <search terms>". So I just went back to using the address bar for searching and just the standard FF shortcuts (called "search engine keywords" IIRC) + a few extras I've added over the years.

On Firefox I have

g - google

ddg - duckduckgo

yt - youtube

w - wikipedia

etc.

easy to type without the bang at the front (Google and Wikipedia are defaults, not sure what the other ones are). I gather on DDG you can use them at the end so you need the ! as a delimiter.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by Ar-Curunir on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:48PM (#8743392)

you can use startpage if you want Google's results with none of the privacy leakage.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by icebraining on Friday December 12, 2014 @08:33PM (#8743728)

I wonder how they got that deal.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by Ar-Curunir on Saturday December 13, 2014 @01:00AM (#8744352)

They pass your queries through a proxy, so you have to trust startpage, I guess.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by icebraining on Saturday December 13, 2014 @01:45AM (#8744450)

No, I mean, I wonder how Startpage got a deal from Google to proxy their results. What's in it for Google?

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by jimmaswell on Saturday December 13, 2014 @12:00AM (#8744222)

A nice thing about these is that they work on Firefox Mobile if you sync it.

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