Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: a

Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: an extension, a manual setting, a workaround.

  • brucethemooseEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    That’s interesting. I thought Google paid to be the default?

    • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      I assume they still are but Startpage is just an option now in the settings I think? I could be wrong though

      • brucethemooseEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        Oh I see. I thought they made Startpage the default in these regions, but I misread the article.

        This is still positive, but I think most will just use whatever Firefox ships as the default.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Today, starting with Firefox 154, that choice becomes as easy as head to the drop-down menu, hit ‘select,’ and start searching