So been moving around a lot with browsers, waterfox, librewolf and very recently degoogle chromium, figured id look at Firefox and holy theres less than half the option in setting then there were afew years back but I gotta say the biggest sin is that adding custom search engine is obfuscated, and the chooses of engines are google, bing, duckduckgo and fucking Amazon! Wtf is that about? But anyway all these search engines are pretty awful including duckduckgo but beyond that the browser scene is a joke, mullvad are about the only company I feel compatible with using now

Edit: instead of saying how easy it is to add custom search engines, I’d like to know why the “add search engine” feature in settings is gone?

    • s20
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      1 year ago

      Yes. It is. And so was doing a big complainy rant without doing any research.

      Again: if you want polite discourse, you have to open with that, not rant and get mad about it later. You set the standard, I just went along with it.

      • squid@feddit.ukOP
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        1 year ago

        I don’t believe you’d read the body of my post. As I’d never said default search engine couldn’t be changed

        So point is that while your saying I didnt do research what gave you that impression. My dispute is with obfuscation

        • s20
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          1 year ago

          It’s not obfuscated if it takes less than a minute to find the answer, dude.

          I liked it better the old way, but the feature isn’t hidden.

          ETA: My point is you don’t get to complain when people reflect back the energy you put out.

          • squid@feddit.ukOP
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            1 year ago

            The dictionary definition of obfuscation means to purposely obscure , make harder, and there is no mention of a time frame. So with the add by URL gone from settings and a limited amount of defaults search engine thats are all shit and no clear reasoning for the removal of that setting then how does that not fit the definition of obfuscation.

            ETA: My point is you don’t get to complain when people reflect back the energy you put out.

            I definitly can complain as can you and anyone else. I am admittedly stoborn (not for stobornness sake or pride) but I have not resorted to name calling

            • s20
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              1 year ago

              You know, I had a big long thing about my local grocery store obfuscating the peanut butter, but I deleted it. I think I’m just gonna let this one go.

              Look, dude, I think we probably caught each other at a bad time or something. I’m not generally this confrontational, and I kinda doubt you are either. I’m sorry I dragged it out so far, and I’m sorry I responded the way I did to your expression of frustration.

              I’ll try to be better. Have a great day, yeah?