Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: an extension, a manual setting, a workaround.

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      2 months ago

      I assume they still are but Startpage is just an option now in the settings I think? I could be wrong though

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        2 months ago

        Oh I see. I thought they made Startpage the default in these regions, but I misread the article.

        This is still positive, but I think most will just use whatever Firefox ships as the default.

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      2 months ago

      Today, starting with Firefox 154, that choice becomes as easy as head to the drop-down menu, hit ‘select,’ and start searching