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Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago (70 children)

I have found a lot of websites over the last few months acting up if I'm using Firefox.

I have chrome for work and if I switch they work flawlessly. It's small things like menus not expanding or elements not loading.

There's a push on unifying browsers.

I've been Firefox and duckduckgo for years and it's getting a bit annoying. Obviously the trade off is worth it I do not want the big tech products but finding good alternatives is getting hard.

DDG has gone downhill in recent years.

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

DDG has gone downhill in recent years.

I haven't noticed this at all.

I've been a frequent DDG g! bang user over the years, but now almost never have to go it. Granted I use kagi for most searches now, but my phone still defaults to DDG, and I've noticed that it works just fine.

Google and therefore kagi are still better for stackoverflow indexing I believe, at least that's how I remember it

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)

What is DDG g! Bang?

Yeah it is really odd I can't understand why it does it because the initial reason I moved to DDG was because of their big marketing push on not putting results or users into bubbles.

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Bangs is a cool DDG feature that redirects your query to another search engine in this case !g is Google

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does it filter out the shite?

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is no modification, it just redirects you to the site

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does it prevent Google from getting your info or something so or what is the benefit in this over using Google?

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is no modification, it's just a handy shortcut, read about bangs here. You are not expected to use !g for all searches, only for those that you wish to search with Google. It's also possible to replicate this with browser search settings, DDG just has this built-in.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Oh that does sound very handy actually, sometimes their results can be useful

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kagi also does this, not that I've ever needed it

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I have just added all the other engines I use in browser itself. Kind of even forgot about bangs.

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