Mozilla Firefox-Startpage

[Andre Rodovalho]

I'm playing with Wireshark right now, and I found that using duckduckgo on
firefox, as a search engine, generates HTTPS requests using TLSv1.2 to IP
addresses located in USA, Virginia, Ashburn: 107.21.1.61, 107.21.1.8


2014-03-24 21:12 GMT-03:00 Dale Visser <dale.visser at live.com>:

>  I tend to be extra paranoid, and set my Firefox homepage to a DuckDuckGo
> URL that specifies searches via HTTPS with the search query in the
> encrypted request body. If there was a way to set the search box to take
> advantage of this, too, I would love to know about it.
>
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> To: brendanperrine at gmail.com <walterorlin at gmail.com>; Israel<israeldahl at gmail.com>
> Cc: lubuntu user list <lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Mozilla Firefox-Startpage
>
>  Am 24.03.2014 18:32, schrieb brendanperrine at gmail.com:
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com
> > <mailto:israeldahl at gmail.com <israeldahl at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> > [ . . . ]
> >
> >     +1 to duckduckgo!
> >     You don't necessarily need to contact ubufox people, can't Lubuntu
> >     bundle a different start page?
> >     I though that was one of the options when customizing a build of
> Ubuntu.
> >     We could, actually build a page that contains those search engines
> >     (both) and uses the Lubuntu logo, right?
> >
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> That what was i thought too. :D
>
> But in any case, it does not hurt to have contacted the ubufox people as
> well. ;-)
>
> I'm not sure: duckduckgo comes by default as a searchengine option in
> firefox? Personally, i deleted yahoo,bing,amazon from that default list
> and added: ixquick (https), metager (https), firefox help and leo (a
> vocabulary). Mycroft as a source of hundreds of searchengines is useful.
>
> Also, i'm not sure if duckduckgo (when it comes with firefox by default)
> is https or not.
>
> Personally, as quoted already before, i think a mini-introduction (under
> a link button) on how to add searchengines especially from the point of
> view of privacy/security would be smart. Together with mentioning https
> everywhere (eff.org). I think once you have installed that, any search
> engine would be automatically https, given it exists as such (no need of
> special installs).
>
> Cheers.
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