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Privacy Search Engine Switcher

A WebExtension to switch current page between various search engines in just one click (or Ctrl+Alt+N), if you are too lazy to type !b, !g (especially on mobile) in DuckDuckGo.

So you can easily keep your privacy as possible as you can.

Currently supported search engines:

• DuckDuckGo
• StartPage
• Bing
• Google

For more information please see GitHub.

Install

• Mozilla Add-ons

Screenshot

Supported Browser

• Firefox for Desktop >= 61
• Firefox for Android >= 61

Requirements for Development

• Node
• web-ext
• GNU Make
• Python 3 (For HTTP server)

Development

Prepare

npm i

Run for development (Watch)

make dev
web-ext run --verbose --firefox-profile ~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE_DIR_NAME

Deploy (Build .xpi file & run a HTTP server for download)

make xpi-server

Permission

For paranoid users such as me, these are all used permissions with its usages:

• tabs:
  • Get the URL of current page (Tab.url in pageAction.onClicked)
  • Redirect to new URL (tabs.update({url: string}))
• storage:
  • For saving user preferences in your Mozilla account (storage.sync)
• duckduckgo.com, startpage.com, bing.com, … etc
  • For inserting content.js in these pages.

  Firefox for Android requires developer call browser.pageAction.show() explicitly and it’s impossible to use pageAction with only manifest.page_action.show_matches to implement this extension.

• "content_security_policy": "default-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval'" : unsafe-eval is required by vue.min.js

3rd-Party Libraries

• Vue v2.6.4

Acknowedgement

• Main icon is from Breeze of KDE Project

TODOs

• Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
• More search engines.
• Fix the bug when StartPage has no query in URL.

License

WTFPL 2.0