Hi everyone, I hope you’re having a pleasant day.
Anyway, I recently switched to using DuckDuckGo HTML as my default search engine, which has been great so far. The only thing is I have this habit of using the right-click menu in Windows to highlight and search for terms – example.
The problem is, DuckDuckGo HTML is not able to be accessed this way, so it just returns a blank screen that says “forbidden.”
Now, this is really no big deal. I can adjust my habit, and I already have Firefox set up so that it always displays the unique search field in addition to the address bar, so it’s really easy to search for things, even if I want to search a URL or something like that.
I’m just curious if there is some way to remove the right-click search option altogether? This would be ideal since I keep accidentally trying to use it, due to force of habit. Would this be something I can disable in about:config?
That URL does work in my browser, yes.
So it works, but it requires an add-on? I never needed one for any other search engine, including SearXNG and mainline DuckDuckGo. Do you know the technical reason the strictly HTML version of DDG doesn’t work like the others? Just curious.
How did you set “DuckDuckGo HTML” as the search engine?
I didn’t see the option and when I searched, I saw that addon and thought that was the way to do it.
I got it from privacyguides.org
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox#w_add-search-engines
sidenote: It seems the POST endpoint that is described in the opensearch xml (ref. https://html.duckduckgo.com/opensearch_html_v2.xml) seems to have an issue but you can still use the
GETendpoint. I’ve described how in my other comment.related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch
Hope this info helps.