It’s not an easy transition. My partner works for DDG and I still don’t use it all the time. To their credit they are working to improve things but it’s a small team (comparatively). Their browser has some good features like app tracking protection just from having it installed and quick throwaway email support but isn’t quite up to Firefox’s standard (yet).
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I switched to Firefox and using DDG as my search engine about 2m ago and I’ll be honest I really don’t care for it. I’m trying my best but I use my phone for 100% of my browsing and not being able to set a home page sucks and with DDG searching for stuff takes significantly longer to get answers with. I search for a ton of stuff that I just need a quick answer to that when searching for Google would just show the answer instead of needing to open links and such. I’m giving it a bit more time but I’ll probably end up back with chrome.
eyes@lemmy.world 4 months ago
pathief@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Try the startpage search engine. It has been much better for me than DDG.
Firefox allows you to select a home page, tho? Not sure what your problem with Firefox is.
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How do I do a home page? When I couldn’t figure it out I searched online and it said on android you can’t.
pathief@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s my bad, I didn’t realize the original user was talking about the android version. Maybe an extension can do it?
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
User error, most people dont like change either
stagen@feddit.dk 4 months ago
On android firefox just doesn’t perform so well as Chrome does and can seem slow and buggy.
pathief@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Firefox on Android allows you to install uBlock Origin. That alone is a major improvement over Chrome.
You can also try out Vivaldi, which is based on Chrome and also has a built in ad blocker. I don’t think you can install uBlock Origin on Android tho…