firefox-zeroclickinfo

This repository has been deprecated. Our current Firefox extension can be found at: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension.

DuckDuckGo enhancements for Firefox.

This addon can

• add a handy DuckDuckGo toolbar button to your browser for easy access to !bang tags (removable).
• add DuckDuckGo as your default search engine through the address bar, search bar and context right-click menu (reversible).
• show DuckDuckGo instant answers on Google/Bing (removable).

Setting the partner parameter

First of all, there is a PARTNER_QUERY_ADDITION constant in lib/main.js that should be set to something like &t=partnerid in order to function properly.

Also, you might want to add the t parameter to the search engine definition which is located at data/search.xml. It usually has a form of <Param name="t" value="partnerid"/>.

You can easily automate both these steps by running

$ make partnerxpi PARTNER_ID=partnerid

which will do both steps for you and provided that you have the Add-on SDK installed it will try to build it for you into a file ddg_for_firefox-partnerid.xpi.

Dependencies

jpm is required.

• Install through node: npm install jpm
• Update PATH: export PATH="$HOME/node_modules/.bin/:$PATH"

Find more information on MDN

Testing Checklist

Since we don't yet have automated tests, here is a checklist of manual tests to perform:

• Extension installs

• Popup opens

• Search box is empty

• Search works and defaults to DDG

• Click a bang, the bang is added to the search box

• Click another bang, the bang in the search box is replaced

• Search with bang works

• Expand/collapse button on right of search hides the bang options

• Click "I'm feeling ducky" and search. Redirects to first organic

• Modified options, both in the popup and in the options.html page, are saved

• When safe search is unchecked, the URL for a search contains the &kp=-1 parameter

• When "remember last search" is checked, on popup open the search box will contain the last performed search