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!

  • kby@feddit.de
    1212·
    5 months ago

    Excuse me if this is an obnoxious question: But why not just Firefox with the DDG extension (if you really need it)? Search engine-specific browsers tend to be… bad in general. It’s going to be a wrapper around some other browser anyway.

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
      1·
      5 months ago

      All these DDG, Mullvad and browser forks are a type of FOSS marketing. Do not worry too much. Just use mainline non-forked browsers like Firefox or “debloated” mainline ones like Ungoogled Chromium.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      223·
      5 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”.