Start page Ubuntu
if you set the startpage of Firefox to about:startpage (or ) you get this:
If you use you get this:
Is it possible to use other search engines in the Ubuntu start page. I'm particularly interested in DuckDuckGo.com.
12 Answers
There used to be a "Home Page" option but they rearranged the peferences configuration and it is now buried somewhere.
Type in the url field about:config, locate setting browser.startup.homepage and set its value to . You will use the search engine directly, without your searches going through the ubuntu servers.
You can download the page HTML I just wrote for you and set it as an offline startpage :
Copy-paste the following code in a text-file you'll name " startpage.htm " :
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html dir="ltr" lang="en"><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Ubuntu Start Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
body { background: white; font-family: ubuntu, ubuntubeta, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0 auto;
}
button::-moz-focus-inner { /* fix buttons in FF */ border: 0; padding: 0;
}
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) { /* Remove button margin in webkit */ button{ margin: 0; }
}
.search-box { width: 595px; margin: 0 auto; margin-top: 63px;
}
.ubuntu-branding { background: url() no-repeat; background-position: 0 -251px; background-color: #aea79f; height: 40px; border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;
}
.wrapper { padding: 0; border: 1px solid #eee; border-top: 0; border-radius: 0 0 5px 5px; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;
}
.wrapper h1 { margin: 0; padding: 0;
}
.logo a { font-size: 1px; display: block; text-indent: -9999px; background: url() no-repeat; background-position: -10px -95px; margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 18px; width: 167px; margin-bottom: 15px; position: relative;
}
.wrapper input { /* allows styling in webkit */ -webkit-appearance: textfield; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 384px; height: 32px; font-size: 18px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; -ms-box-sizing: border-box; -o-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #AEA79F;
}
.inner { display: inline-block; margin: 65px auto 100px auto;
}
.inner form { height: 32px;
}
.external-links { text-align: center; padding-top: 20px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;
}
.external-links li { height: 30px; display: inline-block; text-align: left; padding-top: 8px; margin: 0 10px;
}
.external-links a { text-decoration: none; color: gray; padding: 10px 0 10px 40px;
}
.external-links a::after { content: " ›"; font-size: 16px;
}
.external-links a:hover { color: #e24912;
}
.help-link,
.shop-link,
.community-link { background: url() no-repeat;
}
.help-link { background-position: -10px -450px;
}
.help-link:hover { background-position: -10px -490px;
}
.shop-link { background-position: -10px -368px;
}
.shop-link:hover { background-position: -10px -410px;
}
.community-link { background-position: -10px -528px;
}
.community-link:hover { background-position: -10px -568px;
}
button { margin: 0 3px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; cursor: default; height: 32px; padding: 0 8px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; -ms-box-sizing: border-box; -o-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box;
}
</style>
</head>
<body> <div> <div></div> <div> <div> <a href=""><img src=""></a></h1>
<iframe src="" frameborder="0"></iframe> </div> </div> <ul> <li><a href="">Ubuntu help</a></li> <li><a href="">Ubuntu shop</a></li> <li><a href="">Ubuntu community</a></li> </ul> </div><!-- close search-box -->
</body></html>This is exactly the same HTML code than the official Start Page, but I replaced Yahoo by DuckDuckGo + a logo.
You can also host it somewhere if you want and set that website as start-page, it's exactly the same.
