{"id":557,"date":"2012-03-09T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2019-03-18T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T23:05:25","slug":"how-to-make-firefox-use-duckduckgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/how-to-make-firefox-use-duckduckgo\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make Firefox use DuckDuckGo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t like Google’s new privacy policy?
\nWant to change the search engine Firefox uses when you type something in the location bar?<\/p>\n

Here’s how to make Firefox use DuckDuckGo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. In the Firefox location bar, type about:config<\/strong> and press Enter.
    \n\"\"<\/li>\n
  2. Click I’ll be careful, I Promise!<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Search for the preference: keyword.URL
    \n\"\"
    \n<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Double-click on it, and set the value to: https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=
    \n\"\"
    \n<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Click OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For more information, read the Location bar search article in Firefox Help<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Don’t like Google’s new privacy policy? Want to change the search engine Firefox uses when you type something in the location bar? Here’s how to make Firefox use DuckDuckGo: In the Firefox location bar, type about:config and press Enter. Click… <\/p>\n

    Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}