Why doesn’t firefox use searx.me as its default search engine and doesn’t even offer it as a suggestion, as suggest Bing, Yahoo, Google and others?
Why doesn’t firefox use searx.me as its default search engine and doesn’t even offer it as a suggestion, as suggest Bing, Yahoo, Google and others?
Is there even a way to get ff to recognize a searx instance as a search engine for the search bar? I couldn’t figure it out, so I just set one as a home page.
If you go to a searx instance and click on the 3 dots near your extensions on the right of the screen in the URL bar, there should be an option to add it as a search engine
That didn’t work for me, searx homepage would open but it would not run the query. This is how I solved it:
~ about:config
browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh = true
~ about:preferences#search - Add
engine name = searx
engine URL = https://<searx-instance-baseurl>/search?q=%s
engine alias = @s
I have used https://mycroftproject.com/
That looks actually really nice too. I knew this exists, but never got to look into it, to be honest. It might be the right time now, I suppose.
It was recognized at one point but then ff updated and removed that function. Worst day
As far as I know, you have to use something like Add custom search engine extension. I am using SearX this way as a default search engine, and it works flawlessly.Not necessary with SearX supporting OpenSearch. See @[email protected]’s comment below.
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That is entirely new to me. I read a bit about OpenSearch, but didn’t realize how it can be used. Thanks for the information.