Review by Firefox user 14490558
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 14490558, 5 years ago** Troubleshoot Adblocker PART II **
REBOOT and return to the BROWSER and then re-install the add-on. Close the browser when complete and after all of the browser processes have closed then READD the add-on, when add-on completes installation of itself then you must close the browser and allow it to restart as normal. If you skip this step the blocker may or MAY NOT complete the process of blocking adds but if you do it will probably function without flaw, since you have installed the latest version from the add-on's author, at this point in time) There are no other focused troubleshooting protocols, that I know of, to resolve issues with this particular add-on. However, problems are quite rare with this browser extension but when they happen they are a simple matter to clear and if you simply leave everything proceed normally, then the browser and add-ons will likely self repair; such as through normal browser process cycling or system reboot. I have had memory of this particular browser add-on acting lively and allowing adds but they are rare and long periods of time will pass before it occurs again. There have been 1 or 2 times where a repair of the add-on became a necessity since the add-on was passing large volumes of ads that were causing slowness and disruption to operations, ie booting, sleeping, restarting browsers, etc. alone they may indeed complete the repair operations on its own. I doubt that anyone will find themselves in this situation but if you do then please contact me so that I may have the opportunity to assist you in completing diagnostic operations with your PC, browser and the add-on.
Consider focusing on any SYSTEM VARIABLES, temporary directories, registry entries, PAGEFILE.SYS, searching file system for errors, rebooting and power cycling. If you've done everything else than pursue the PC system health and/or browser reinstall. Getting to a stall point like this is exceedingly rare and will likely not occur but the only real rule with PC's that you should keep in mind for yourself and that is that PC's will never actually demonstrated absolute ordered predictability is that you can never expect them to behave like a human being but if you keep your OS in a maintained state it will not fail and leave you hanging from a cliff' ledge. That said, of course feel free to contact me at any time for assistance, all the while concentrating on system repair and/or completing thorough system diagnostics on the filesystems, caches, OS an/or registry. You may also consider reinstalling the browser from the authors website.
REBOOT and return to the BROWSER and then re-install the add-on. Close the browser when complete and after all of the browser processes have closed then READD the add-on, when add-on completes installation of itself then you must close the browser and allow it to restart as normal. If you skip this step the blocker may or MAY NOT complete the process of blocking adds but if you do it will probably function without flaw, since you have installed the latest version from the add-on's author, at this point in time) There are no other focused troubleshooting protocols, that I know of, to resolve issues with this particular add-on. However, problems are quite rare with this browser extension but when they happen they are a simple matter to clear and if you simply leave everything proceed normally, then the browser and add-ons will likely self repair; such as through normal browser process cycling or system reboot. I have had memory of this particular browser add-on acting lively and allowing adds but they are rare and long periods of time will pass before it occurs again. There have been 1 or 2 times where a repair of the add-on became a necessity since the add-on was passing large volumes of ads that were causing slowness and disruption to operations, ie booting, sleeping, restarting browsers, etc. alone they may indeed complete the repair operations on its own. I doubt that anyone will find themselves in this situation but if you do then please contact me so that I may have the opportunity to assist you in completing diagnostic operations with your PC, browser and the add-on.
Consider focusing on any SYSTEM VARIABLES, temporary directories, registry entries, PAGEFILE.SYS, searching file system for errors, rebooting and power cycling. If you've done everything else than pursue the PC system health and/or browser reinstall. Getting to a stall point like this is exceedingly rare and will likely not occur but the only real rule with PC's that you should keep in mind for yourself and that is that PC's will never actually demonstrated absolute ordered predictability is that you can never expect them to behave like a human being but if you keep your OS in a maintained state it will not fail and leave you hanging from a cliff' ledge. That said, of course feel free to contact me at any time for assistance, all the while concentrating on system repair and/or completing thorough system diagnostics on the filesystems, caches, OS an/or registry. You may also consider reinstalling the browser from the authors website.
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13508883, 20 days agoI went to the startpage site because duckduckgo was having issues briefly, and I added the search add-on, the type that you used to get on mycroft, in case I ran into trouble like that again. When I did this, it surreptitiously went ahead and installed this full browser extension as well. The process was either without my consent, or made to look like I was consenting to the thing I actually wanted.
Go figure, sketchy behavior by the company that used to use Alex Jones as a poster boy. I'm ticking with Duckduckgo, but I was alwas going to. This just confirmed my feelings about Startpage.Developer response
posted 19 days agoThanks for caring about privacy. Our extension follows normal installation steps and requires consent. Nothing is installed until you confirm using the standard Firefox dialogs. - Rated 4 out of 5by LuccaLuke, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 7035236, 20 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ariel, a month agoVery handy search engine but startpage.com is not available in China /(ㄒoㄒ)/~
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19026513, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by 18skeltor, 2 months ago"Server Not Found" and abysmal wait times. No, it's not my connection.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Faux Floras, 2 months agoSimilar to Duckduckgo and Brave but does not give detailed AI answers like Deepfind
Developer response
posted 2 months agoWe recently launched PrivateAI in our iOS and will be making it available on other platforms soon. - Rated 2 out of 5by JM9373M, 3 months agoWas using this for a few months but found out recently about the fingerprinting with uBlock, so changed to Mojeek and DDG
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14375826, 3 months agoI had high hopes but it's just another feeding trough for the mouthbreathing contingent. The first result is always a BIG yt video, which seems to be impervious to UBO's element picker/zapper. this can be removed by blocking scripting but then startpage itself becomes nearly unusable without JS enabled. Image search basically breaks.
The web continues it's death march towards increasing disutilityDeveloper response
posted 2 months agoIf you don't want to see that video at the top of the results list, disable Instant Answers in Settings. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14724677, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14081674, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Buddy Hoover, 3 months agoUsed to be great but "Uh-oh, there are no results for this search" for a month for every search input
- Rated 4 out of 5by icamefortheshow, 3 months agoDefinitely better than DuckDuckGo, not sure why DDG gets baked into FF but I have to install an add-on for SP. Guessing DDG is paying to be included??
However while Startpage is my "go first" search choice I end up at Google more than I would like [~30-40%] because SP is not there yet as far as the results go. SP is just not as good Google yet.
Technical topics tend to be where SP struggles the most and the main problem is that Startpage is giving too much weight to older pages. Trying to trouble shoot software and most of the results are from ~2018 happens way too much. Changing "Any time" to "Past year" helps but that can be too short of a time period.
The other main issue is search modifiers are inconsistent, for example a negative modifier Windows -Microsoft may or may not work and the same with using quotes as in "Windows for my house" is a coin flip if I am going to only get results with the exact match or not.
Keep working on it as I would be happy if I never had to use Google again.... - Rated 1 out of 5by c3Vja2l0ZHJ5, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Goooog le Morons, 4 months agoeven if web interface is available, any search for any query every time returns NO RESULTS.
absolutely useless stuff for 'search engine' which simply stopped working and isn't being fixed for several months at least.
but what a good thing it was before...
R.I.P, Startpage! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18692226, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18813619, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Davi, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dr. Katty Enriquez Mayo, 5 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17159731, 6 months agowell i like it my only problem dont know if it startpage or firefox but the reader icon and the star in the address bar needs a option to remove delete throw it in trash permanently because it is a annoying piece of garbage dont need it dont want anything ever in the address bar besides what i type in it !! everything i need is in the drop down menu all i need all i want everything else is useless and needs togo especially search bookmarks and search tabs can not stand that garbage !!! get rid of that stupid annoying garbage or at least give people option to not install that garbage it just pisses people off and and clutters my browser with more crap people including i dont want and usally is something i can do with my drop down menu anyway just like worthless widgets this idea is the biggest piece of garbage that does nothing but clutter up a computer with no way to remove that whole prorgram !!!! god how i wish there was a way to remove all wigets from a computer or i wish i knew enough to figure out how to remove wigets app from my computer
Developer response
posted 6 months agoThis sounds like a Firefox UI issue, not a Startpage one. If you need help uninstalling our extension or anything Startpage related, get in touch at support@startpage.com. Hang in there.
And here's where to leave feedback for Firefox to add us as a default option (meaning an extension would not be required to use Startpage as the default search engine in Firefox).
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/add-startpage-private-search-as-option/idi-p/72587 - Rated 5 out of 5by C R TATE, 6 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18441491, 6 months agoUsing google to search but remaining anonymous is ideal. But... only if you like the default search settings.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Wallamander Hucklebee, 7 months ago