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> It had private browsing in 2005 I stand corrected. > It added DDG as an option in 2014, while Chrome added it only this year. There's a nuance here. Apple'
by rgovostes 7y ago
> It had private browsing in 2005
I stand corrected.
> It added DDG as an option in 2014, while Chrome added it only this year.
There's a nuance here. Apple's list of search engines comes from a cryptographically signed file which only they can modify. Chrome allowed you to manually configure DDG, but omitted it from the pre-configured list of search engines that included Bing and Yahoo!.
- saagarjha 7y agoInterestingly, the ability to add a new search engine has been removed from Safari with the deprecation of legacy extensions.
- millstone 7y agoIt's true that you couldn't add it as an option to the fixed list, but in practice there were extensions that enabled it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3770958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3770958 is a fun trip down memory lane.