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I counted three clicks on Chrome: 1. Right-click on search bar when on duckduckgo.com 2. Click edit search engines 3. Next to DuckDuckGo (it's autodetected the
by bdonlan 14y ago
I counted three clicks on Chrome:
1. Right-click on search bar when on duckduckgo.com
2. Click edit search engines
3. Next to DuckDuckGo (it's autodetected the first time you visit the site), click 'make default'.
It's more clicks than firefox if you do it via the extension, but google's stance on blocking third-party extensions by default makes sense when you consider the threat of malicious extensions, and how most people don't read the permissions prompt.
- amitamb 14y agoSearch Provider is not an extension it is just a setting in your browser so I am not buying the argument that is is for security purposes. Also, these three steps are not intuitive i.e. you can't ask user to click a button on your website to initiate the change. While on Firefox, clicking on a button, a prompt gets shown to make your search engine default one. Even in case of Firefox, user has to explicitly click on check-box to make your search engine default. Try here http://www.verticalset.com/ http://www.verticalset.com/