Linux Mint

DuckDuckGo Default Search URL is insecure

Bug #1716289 reported by Wes
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Bug Description

chrome://settings/searchEngines
The default DDG search URL is not secure HTTPS.

Expected: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=%s

Currently http://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=%s

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

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    apport-collect 1716289

For chromium-browser, the default search URL for DuckDuckGo is "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}&t=canonical", and as far as I can tell it hasn't changed in the past 4 years.

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Wes (wesinator) wrote :

@osomon Yes, you are correct, my mistake. This is a Linux Mint specific issue, moving over accordingly.
I can't find the specific LM package / code that contains the search engines.

affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) → linuxmint
Changed in linuxmint:
status: Incomplete → New
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Wes (wesinator) wrote :

Line 38 of ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences in the Linux Mint default config is where the URL needs to be updated.

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Wes (wesinator) wrote :

The LM .config/chromium/ folder should probably just be removed entirely - https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1716437

Wes (wesinator)
Changed in linuxmint:
status: New → Fix Released
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