EDIT: see the other comment with the solution
It works for me. I installed this add-on and when I ‘select text (in the example “running”) > right click > Search Duck DuckGo HTML for “…”’, it opens this URL:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=running
Does that URL work in your browser?
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How did you set “DuckDuckGo HTML” as the search engine?
I didn’t see the option and when I searched, I saw that addon and thought that was the way to do it.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox#w_add-search-engines
sidenote: It seems the POST endpoint that is described in the opensearch xml (ref. https://html.duckduckgo.com/opensearch_html_v2.xml) seems to have an issue but you can still use the
GETendpoint. I’ve described how in my other comment.related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch
Hope this info helps.
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The problem is, DuckDuckGo HTML is not able to be accessed this way,
That sounds like a bug, and i can reproduce it with a new empty profile. Gonna analyse the issue and be back later.
edit:
seems to be an issue with the
POSTendpoint so something on DDG’s side or firefox is not sending the post request correctly, thats also an options, havent looked that deeply into the issue. But theGETendpoint seems to work fine.Here the steps to setup without using an addon
- open
about:configand addbrowser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefreshasbooleanwith valuetrue - open
about:preferences#searchand click theAddbutton onSearch Enginetable. 
- Set the new Engine as the default in the
Default Search Enginesection
Thats it, now the right click search should work.
Hope it helps.
Thank you for looking into this! I could submit a report myself, but my technical knowledge is fairly limited.
Oh thanks! I’m afk now, but once I’m home again I’ll try your fix!
Edit: No dice. It will open DDGHTML in another tab, but it fails to actually search for keywords
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