bangs.lol

bangs.lol evaluates DuckDuckGo bangs in a service worker instead of on a server. It's faster and more private.

Add it to your browser

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Browser:

  1. Navigate to chrome://settings/searchEngines
  2. Under the "Inactive shortcuts" heading, click "Activate" next to the bangs.lol option
  3. Under the "Site Search" heading, click "Add"
  4. In the dialog, enter bangs.lol as the search engine, b as the shortcut, and https://bangs.lol/s?q=%s as the URL, and add the engine
  5. Click on the 3 dots option for bangs.lol under "Site Search", and click "Make default"
  1. Click on the address bar, and add bangs.lol as a search engine An exclamation point icon with a green plus button
  2. Navigate to about:preferences#search
  3. Open the "Default Search Engine" dropdown, and choose bangs.lol at the bottom

The above instructions ignore the default selection. You can set bangs.lol with the correct default as a search prefix though by right-clicking this box and clicking "Add a Keyword for this Search". I don't currently support adding non-default bangs as the default to Firefox.

  1. Find your browser's search engine settings
  2. Add a search engine with a search URL of https://bangs.lol/s?q=%s
  3. Set that search engine as the default

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