I was just trying to unsuccessfully write a blog post about search engines and browsers teaming up and procrastinating playing with Falkon browser and I remembered this post about Mojeek allying with other browsers.
Now Mojeek has had some very good news being added to Privacy Browser and Pale Moon as a predefined search engine. So what other browser projects are out there? It seems like there browsers are getting gobbled up by search companies. But also the list at Wikipedia seems incomplete.
KDE, Konqueror
KDE Falkon - DDG is default in US, also lists Startpage, Wikipedia and Google. No way to add an SE.
There are a couple of browsers I’ve heard of that are not on that list: ie. Privacy Browser (mentioned before) Bromite, LibreWolf. Which got me thinking what other browser projects are out there and not listed? Maybe you folks have.
Which relates to this thread. I asked for other browsers so that this list can act like notes on a cocktail napkin. The Mojeek team can then do what they want with it.
I just have this hunch that being at least a preinstalled alternate on as many browsers as possible can only be a good thing for branding, users, privacy and search choice.
Phone Browsers - a privacy search engine for privacy phones.
e.foundation
Own browser. Comes with Spot, an /e/ fork of Searx as default (I question if scraping is sustainable). DDG lite, DDG reg., Qwant are alternates. This is a heavy reliance on Bing.
Aside: Mojeek Android app has the highest rating 10/10 for privacy in the eOS App Lounge store DDG, Qwant, Swiss Cows only rate 9/10. Bragging point.
Pine Phone
Comes with Linux installed. UI is KDE Plasma
KDE Angelfish browser on Plasma - DDG might be default from the screen shots. others unknown
Purism Librem 5
PureOS (Linux)
Browser is just desktop Firefox. (This may mean it’s a dead end.)
Absolute gold there, my Android device (which was carrying /e/) decided it didn’t want to work any more) so I wasn’t aware.
I have my own list here that I’m making contact with on a regular basis, and which I will definitely update with the ones here which are missing. As mentioned before, the FOSS projects are a bit more tricky as we don’t want to approach them in a way that might put them off.
Some recent updates in this vein:
White Star / Commit [A]n independent browser derived from Firefox/Mozilla community code
Congratulations! @Seirdy 's article on search engines with their own indexes is a gem as a citation. People, even developers, are very cautious about search engines and seem to want authoritative reassurance that a search engine is legit and useful.
Agreed on that one, the article appears in so many places, git commits, Reddit comments, HackerNews posts; it’s great to see that it gets the airing that it deserves, especially given the obvious effort that has been put into providing this level of analysis.