This tutorial will help you switch from Google to DuckDuckGo as default search engine your use on Ubuntu 24.04 or more precisely Firefox web browser. Today DuckDuckGo is an alternative search engine and very famous in the Free Software Community especially among the privacy-aware projects and people, for example, Tor Browser uses it by default, and so does other GNU/Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu, Trisquel. Now if you care about your privacy, after learning much about it, you might want to use it too. Let’s try it out!
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1. Run Firefox
2. Click triple line button to the right > Settings
3. On the Settings, click “Search” chapter to the left.
4. On the Search, default search engine will be “Google”.
5. Click the option to switch from Google to DuckDuckGo.
6. Done. Search engine switched successfully to DuckDuckGo. Now try to search anything.
Tips and tricks: write a word right in the address bar and press Enter to quickly search for anything. This is faster than opening DuckDuckGo website first.
7. How to revert back to default: repeat step 5 and select Google.
See Also
List of Free Software Instant Messenger Applications (Telegram, Signal, etc.)
List of Phone Brands Powered with Free Software
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