Of course the people behind Zotero have a lot on their plate. How much of a priority is it to make a pluggin for the DuckDuckGo browser on the macOS Monterey system?
What would that plugin do? There's no plugin/import for any general-purpose search engine and the concept doesn't make a lot of sense in the context of Zotero.
Pedrom described exactly what I'm looking for. When landing on platforms for academic articles, the pluggins for either FF or Safari allow directly downloading the citation data. There doesn't seem to be any way to do this for DDG. The same holds for the GooglePatent database. DDG also doesn't register any tracking attempts (cookies?) from Zotero. Instead, I've been downloading the metadata in .ris format and importing into Zotero. The .ris format apparently doesn't include more than the most basic data - especially abstracts. Zotero does much better.
ah sorry, yes, I misunderstood. I'd be surprised if Zotero added explicity support for another browser. Other supported browsers without tons of users (like Brave and Opera) work because they are able to use other browser's add-ons. Surely DDG must have thought about that and be able to use the extension system of one of the major browsers?
Roughly 75% down the article which Pedrom recommended is a description of how DDG differs from other browsers. Maybe that interferes with Zotero? That being said, the folks who wrote DDG state that it's a beta version. DDG streams on Twitter.
You'd have to find out from DDG what their plans for extensions are. I'm pretty sure Zotero isn't going to do anything specifically for a browser unless it's got at least some percent market share.
I have contacted DuckDuckGo about this to say how important a Zotero integration is for academic users. Has anyone else tried to make contact in the past? One reason why I currently prefer DDG over Firefox is that Firefox for Windows always downloads PDFs even when I select "Open in Browser". This clutters my PC and the Firefox forums say there's no way to stop this. DuckDuckGo doesn't download but really just lets me explore a PDF document first before I decide if I want to keep it.
@monika.barget: No, that's not correct. Setting "Open in Firefox" for PDFs in the Applications section of the Firefox settings (which I believe is the default setting) should cause Firefox to show most PDFs at their original remote location and let you save them to Zotero with the Zotero Connector. The only exception would be for sites that force files to be downloaded (very uncommon among academic sites), in which case most browsers will likely obey that, though there might be a browser extension that can override that. If you're having trouble with that, best to start a new thread with specific examples (or a new thread in the Firefox forums, since it's not a Zotero issue).
And people who want DuckDuckGo as the default search engine but also Firefox extensions might want to check out the Midori web browser. I am just testing it on my Android phone and it has a lot of features I really like. I will check out how it performs on Windows later...
@samvimes: Ah, great. Yes, that's the situation I was referring to — sites that force PDFs to be downloaded (with "Content-Disposition: attachment"). So no browser extension necessary. ("Open in Firefox" should be sufficient for most sites, though, and is indeed the default.)
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Since it's based on safari rendering engine, maybe the connector for safari works?
Instead, I've been downloading the metadata in .ris format and importing into Zotero. The .ris format apparently doesn't include more than the most basic data - especially abstracts. Zotero does much better.
Other supported browsers without tons of users (like Brave and Opera) work because they are able to use other browser's add-ons. Surely DDG must have thought about that and be able to use the extension system of one of the major browsers?
And people who want DuckDuckGo as the default search engine but also Firefox extensions might want to check out the Midori web browser. I am just testing it on my Android phone and it has a lot of features I really like. I will check out how it performs on Windows later...