chromium in debian: hardcoded search engine, hardcoded home directory prefix
Firefox on Debian is unusable because it allocates memory until the computer grinds to a halt, no matter how much memory the machine has. Chromium is better on memory, but has plenty of its own annoyances, which seem to be getting worse. The search engine is hardcoded to DuckDuckGo. There is no way to add multiple search engines as search engines. You can add a site search with shortcut, so that you just have to type "g foo" to google, which isn't too bad. You do this with Site search -> Add. The form is really weird. But you can eventually enter Name as google, Shortcut as "g", and URL as "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s". For changing the default, we are out of luck. The help under "Search engines" says "You can also change your default search engine here". But if I click on the pen hieroglyph, the URL of duckduckgo is greyed-out and not editable. The "Search engines" list has one item and can not be added t...