Flashbang – DuckDuckGo bangs resolved locally with a Service Worker

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I like to use DuckDuckGo-style bangs and snaps, they are fast and efficient shortcuts.However, neither Kagi nor DuckDuckGo resolves them as quickly as I would like and subjectively Google has better search results than DuckDuckGo.After trying a few local alternatives eg. unduck, unduckified, I wasn't satisfied, the ones I tried briefly loaded a page before redirecting causing visible page flickering, still took time to resolve the actual redirect and lacked advanced features (address-bar autocomplete). Flashbang avoids that by handling the redirect in a Service Worker, before the browser renders anything. On my machine, the added ove rhead is around 0.14ms.It has 14,470 bangs, custom shortcu

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