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by arthurz 1629 days ago
DuckDuckGo should have its own browser. This way the no track is more sound.
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kjaftaedi 1629 days ago
They will have one soon, and they have a mobile browser already, which is my default.
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_vdpp 1629 days ago
Their mobile browser is actually very nice, I’ve used it almost exclusively for 2 years now.
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upsidesinclude 1629 days ago
Haha, I thought that seemed like a good idea, then remembered I'm using it and have been for at least a year... It's a pretty seemless mobile browser CAVEATS: Downloaded files are renamed generically... to "asset.pdf" or similar Bookmark handling is terrible and this could kill it for many users
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hoppyhoppy2 1629 days ago
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848133/duckduckgo-brow...
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f0xtrot 1629 days ago
My main grumble with the mobile browser is that it lacks view-source and about: tools.
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sam_goody 1629 days ago
Does chrome mobile or safari have a view-source button? if you do view-source:url does that not work on Duck browser?
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f0xtrot 1629 days ago
I'm not sure about a button for view source in any of them.

view-source: appears to still work in chrome mobile (Firefox works too), not sure about safari.

Nope, view-source: does not work on ddg. which seems odd since it looks like it's built on top of chrome. URL's seem like they're parsed oddly.

I have yet to find a way to view source on ddg :(

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dredmorbius 1629 days ago
Firefox Android lacks both as well.
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f0xtrot 1629 days ago
Adding view-source: to the url works for me on FF android.
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dredmorbius 1628 days ago
Huh, confirmed for myself.

Fennec 95.2.0 (F-Droid build of Firefox/Android)

Checking Mozilla Support, this seems to have been a recently-restored capability as it is discussed as recently a 2021/1/10

It seems to have been restored by 2021/1/11

See issues #3710 #3972

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1309515

From https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3710 it appears the (manually-entered "view-source" option) was restored by build 92.1.1, in a comment dated Sep 14, 2021.

From https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3972

Feature seems to have been restored to Nightly releases as of 27 May 2021, build 88.1.4

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