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Re: duckduckgo
From: Kevin Shalla <kshalla () UIC EDU>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:39:09 -0600
Thanks, that did it (I didn't notice that noscript had protected me from that).
On 1/26/2012 9:07 AM, John Ladwig wrote:
I overcame this by enabling Javascript on the addons page before hitting the Install Now button. -jml --- original message --- From: "Kevin Shalla"<kshalla () UIC EDU> Subject: [SECURITY] duckduckgo Date: January 26, 2012 Time: 9:5:4 I use Firefox 9, and when I follow the path for what I think should add a search engine - choose select search engine drop-down list, Manage Search Engines... -> Get more search engines... then search on duckduckgo, then press the Download Now button for DuckDuckGo SSL Search Engine (HTTPS), I get the following. Has anyone overcome this problem? Other add ons work fine. This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. <OpenSearchDescription><ShortName>DuckDuckGo (SSL)</ShortName><Description>Search DuckDuckGo (SSL)</Description><InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding><LongName>DuckDuckGo SSL Search</LongName><Image height="16" width="16" type="image/x-icon">data:image/x-icon;base64,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</Image><Url type="text/html" method="get" template="https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}"/></OpenSearchDescription> On 1/25/2012 1:00 PM, Isabelle Graham wrote:I've been using it for a while now (for various reasons) and I really like it. For those of you that keep cookies between sessions, they have some really nice options [http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html] and their bang syntax is a nice feature [http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html]. Definitely recommended. Now I just need a good free web-based email alternative... Isabelle Graham Information Security Engineer American University On 2012-01-25 13:40, Solem, Vik P. wrote:On 2012-01-25 12:20 , "Steve Bohrer"<skbohrer () SIMONS-ROCK EDU> wrote:On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Martin Manjak wrote:Time to switch your default search engine.https://duckduckgo.comWow! Nice! I like it. Fast. No ads.Perhaps promising, though I've not used it much yet, so can't vouch for the quality of search. The main idea they are selling is that they don't retain user data: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.htmlI like it even better.It would be nice if this idea catches on as a valuable thing to look for in online services.Yes. I just changed my Google Chrome instance to use it as the default search engine. I'll see how it goes. Might just have to change over my other machines/browsers. Thanks again. -Vik Vik Solem, CISSP, Sr. Applications Risk Consultant Tufts University, Information Security, vik.solem () tufts edu / 617-627-4326 InfoSec Team: information_security () tufts edu / 617-627-6070
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