From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 3/11/2025 9:48 pm, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   > On 2025-10-29, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Even worse, DuckDuckGo has stopped working.  Type something into the   
   >> search bar and hit , and the status line says "Waiting for   
   >> improving.duckduckgo.com", and hangs there forever.   
   >>   
   >> Firefox still works normally.  But I hate its user interface.   
   >   
   > Last I counted, duckduckgo has 3 different interfaces, or at least   
   > had. So, in case one of these is useful to you:   
   >   
   > 1) The regular one,   
   > 2) a "HTML" one, and   
   > 3) a "lite" one.   
   >   
   > 2. https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/, which is blank here when it has no   
   >     search query (possibly some CSS styling on their side?; search query   
   >     goes in the "q" GET parameter (or at least that works here*) and that   
   >     produces a readable results page); I guess I rarely see the front   
   >     page issue because I use it through a search plugin.   
   >   
   > 3. https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ (This seems to rely on POST   
   >     parameters, which might be why I don't use it often? Does accept a   
   >     "?q=..." in the initial request, though.)   
   >   
   > My experiences with 2 and 3 are with JS disabled (via NoScript), so it's   
   > possible something breaks with JS enabled, although I'd hope "HTML" and   
   > "lite" would also mean "no JS"...   
   >   
   > * Some search engine interfaces have options to choose between POST and   
   >    GET parameters, I don't recall whether that is the case for DuckDuckGo   
   >    or not.   
   >   
   >   
   I've selected DDG as my prefered web search device in my SeaMonkey   
   Preferences, so I just have to enter "Something or other" in the Browser   
   address line, hit enter, and away DDG goes.   
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