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Something that really bothers me about the DDG interface is how it hijacks the up/down arrow keys I use for scrolling. After searching, press down, and the pag
by epalm 9y ago
Something that really bothers me about the DDG interface is how it hijacks the up/down arrow keys I use for scrolling. After searching, press down, and the page won't scroll down, it'll just highlight the first search result. Keep pressing down, and the page still won't scroll until the last visible result is highlighted. Press down one more time, and the page scrolls erratically, highlighting the next result in the center of the window. At this point, pressing up/down will scroll exactly as far as needed to keep the prev/next result highlighted in the center.
I find this very annoying. After years (decades!) of training, my eyes know exactly how far one keypress should scroll. Stop messing with the default scrolling mechanism!
- ekto 9y agoYou can turn off their special keyboard shortcuts to enable normal scrolling behavior. Check out https://duckduckgo.com/settings https://duckduckgo.com/settings You can add this (and any other setting you tweak) to your browser search bar so you don't have to rely on cookies. In this case, edit the search URL to: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&kk=-1 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&kk=-1