DuckDuckGo preview desktop browser, main privacy protection speed is faster than Chrome

The search engine DuckDuckGo is developing a desktop browser that will also focus on privacy protection. In an article on its blog, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg previewed the upcoming browser and pointed out that we can expect its performance to be the same as its mobile browser application.

Weinberg explained that the desktop browser will provide “strong privacy protection” by default, and you don’t have to set any hidden security options. Like mobile apps, desktop browsers will also be equipped with the same “Fire” button, one click to instantly clear all browsing history, stored data and tags.

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It is also built around the “rendering engine provided by the operating system”-just like it is on a mobile phone. Weinberg said this will create a cleaner interface, free of any clutter caused by mainstream browsers. He also claimed that early testing of the browser showed that it was significantly faster than the Chrome browser.

Allison Johnson, senior communications manager of DuckDuckGo, explained in a statement to The Verge: “MacOS and Windows now provide website rendering APIs (WebView/WebView2), and any application can be used to render websites. This is what we are on the desktop. Methods of building applications on the

He continued: “On the contrary, we are building desktop applications from scratch around the rendering API provided by the operating system. This means that any functions beyond website rendering (such as tag and bookmark management, navigation control, passwords, etc.) must be built by ourselves In other words, on Windows, the browser will use Edge/Chromium rendering, and the same is true for Safari/Webkit on macOS. Johnson also pointed out that this is not equivalent to a fork, which means that the browser is based on Created by existing browsers”

The browser is currently in closed beta on macOS, but Weinberg hinted on Twitter that DuckDuckGo is also preparing for Windows. There is no news about when the desktop browser will be publicly available.

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