How To Use Startpage as Search Engine on Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial will help you switch search engine from Google to Startpage.com on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". This is a continuation to the previous tutorial Switch to DuckDuckGo to give you more good alternatives. We pick Startpage here because in reality we live with it for many years now, thanks to recommendation from many projects from within our community and we use it even more than DuckDuckGo. We wish the best for Startpage and you. Now let's try it out!

1. Run Firefox.

2. Visit startpage.com

3. Right-click the URL https://startpage.com -> Add "Startpage Search".

4. Click triple line button -> Settings -> Search.

5. Under Default Search Engine, select Startpage.

6. Done.

Now write anything in the address bar or new tab's search and press Enter and you will get search results from Startpage. Happy searching!

7. To revert back to default, repeat 1-5 and select another choice.

Notes

This tutorial is based on Firefox. Thus, fortunately this is also applicable to any web browser modified from Firefox including Trisquel Abrowser, GNU Icecat and LibreWolf etc.

References

You can do a research yourself to find the most privacy-respecting search engine and things related to it through our references below. All links accessed Wednesday 28 August 2024.

Prism Break Project: Search Engine Chapter (*)

Privacy Guides Project: Search Engine Chapter

Privacy Tools IO Project: Search Engine Chapter

Free Software Directory: PRISM Chapter

Search Engine Party: Comparison Table of SEs

Wikipedia: Comparison Table of SEs

(*) They used to recommend Startpage in the past.