Add Startpage private search as option

[cane1]

Can we update Firefox search engine options to include Startpage? Other browsers already have this & would make it a lot easier to use on my phone.

[fredbartholomew]

Good idea!

[snake_husband]

this would be so nice because i would really like to use startpage on my phone instead of just on my laptop

[anon2000]

Please do, you have to either go to their website or download the extension, which many lazy people will not do.

[mattemod]

I've been using Startpage as my main search engine for many years now and I've always been disappointed in Mozilla for not including it in Firefox, while instead supporting search engines that are very questionable for privacy and things like eBay that... come on... it's not even a search engine and who cares about having it built-in?!

Please add Startpage to Firefox as a default built-in search engine.

[cylex]

Yes please!

This would be great 👍

[crystalfoxdusty]

I prefer Startpage and have it as my main search engine. From what I know it gives more privacy and is less intrusive. Google has had a bad reputation for spying and collecting our data to sell and use against us, while startpage has not (At least not yet).

I do not have anything to hide on my PC, except a few embarrassing things (Nothing illegal), and don't want someone using it to try rubbing advertisement in my face and making money off of me while I get nothing in return. So Startpage would be an improvement......

[chzuck]

I have been using Startpage as my default search engine on Firefox for years.  Please add it to make it easier for others to start using.  Throw out Google the spymaster!

[pound_hash]

Fabulous.

May the user @cane1 be memorialized in the settings of Firefox for ourselves and our posterity.

[Kyasu]

+1

[EditedYoshi]

Fully agree, been using Startpage for a long time. Would be nice to see it be a default and not an extension. Mozilla! please add it.

[Shvabra]

I support the idea. It's high time.

[jgk]

That would be great.

[michelled74]

Yes please!

[neutronstar87]

I'm already using Startpage as a default search engine using Startpage's extension on Firefox. In-fact, one of the reasons I'm using Brave on Android is because I can configure Startpage as default search engine. It has its flaws, notably the suspicious buyout by a major advertising agency, and frequent Captcha prompts, but its privacy policy is still just as clear-cut so any selling or consumption of user data will land them in deep waters so I still trust them via mutually-assured destruction.

I would definitely like this!

[neutronstar87]

I would also like to inform Mozilla reviewers and employees that the large pour of upvotes and comments is not totally organic as Startpage has started to prompt (in a small ignorable section) with a direct link to this thread to go and upvote. So the people here are not an extrapolate-able representation of the entire Firefox userbase, but rather mostly a subset of the already-existing Startpage users.

Just wanted to let you know in case you take that kind of information into account before introducing a feature.