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    1 year ago

    The real problem is that it is not possible to set a custom search engine like you can in Firefox (with a hack) or Chromium browsers.

    Also, not sure where you are in the world but I (in the US) only have the following options:

    • Google
    • Yahoo
    • Bing
    • DuckDuckGo
    • Ecosia
    • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Why do you need a hack?

      Firefox supports OpenSearch, you can just go to any search engine (like my searxng site) and right-click the address bar to add it to your search engines.

      Or you can manually add it from settings by just adding the address of the search site. It will determine the proper format automatically, no need to add the %s stuff you typically would.

      Firefox also handles suggestions properly, Chrome doesn’t seem to support them at all outside of their engine.

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            The problem is not whether or not the site supported open search, the problem is that Firefox should have allowed me to easily and intuitively set a custom search engine. When I go into Google Chrome and want to set a search engine, I can easily figure it out. Having to change an about:config flag is not at all intuitive.

            For the record, I was trying to save my bookmarklet URL from DuckDuckGo and the open search functionality wasn’t working to save my bookmarklet query string.

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              Oh yeah I see what you mean now, that is dumb.

              I didn’t realize they removed the ability to manually add a search engine (without flipping flags)

              Somebody should compile a list of flags you might wanna toggle/change on a new install of FF. Actually I imagine someone already has