I have been very happy with DuckDuckGo, and it has helped me break free of routines that I did not feel safe with. Especially the small flame icon that would clear all history, cookies and cache from websites that are not “fireproofed” was great!

But today I had to do a quick example on Tinkercad (3D browser design tool) and it was so slow! I thought that my PC maybe was busy doing something (yeah its an older PC but not THAT old), but when I open the same page on my now parked Opera browser, everything went smoothly.

I am ok with using Opera, or any other browser for 3D work, as I don’t really do all that much of it, but I just feel gutted to find out that my now favorite browser sucks so bad at something, not to mention the Microsoft Edge processes when that is the last of any browser that I would choose to use

EDIT: I found out that this was due to hardware acceleration was off, on my DuckDuckGo browser. I had turned it off, because the fonts on websites looked blurry when it was on. The solution was to turn off antialising on the Nvidia control panel, and restart the PC. It is now working well!

  • whou@lemmy.ml
    861·
    11 months ago

    Firefox with ublock origin is even better than the DuckDuckGo browser alone. Yes, you can use DuckDuckGo as a default search engine, and even install the extension, if you need to.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      220·
      11 months ago

      What I like with DDG is that I can clear all cookies, cache, history etc except for the sites that i have “fireproofed”.

        • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
          43·
          11 months ago

          Not as easily it seems but to be fair, i haven’t looked too much into it. In DDG I get asked if I want to fireproof the site, when I type in any information. Then I just press flame icon to torch everything else multiple times a day.

          • DetectiveSanity@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            On Firefox you can set the browser to clear any type of data on quit and set exceptions for certain sites such as your search engine.

            In addition you can set global preferences for data tracking and selling to inform all websites upon landing of your privacy settings.

            • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              10 months ago

              Do you know of an easy way to add sites to the exception list? I really like how easy itnia to “fireproof” sites with a press of a button but in Firefox it takes quite a lot more.