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0 pointssecondary_op2y ago0 comments

That's it, ddg is gone from my Firefox and hopefully from my browsing habits.

Speaking about Firefox, it is insane how needlessly complicated it is to add new search engine to Firefox [1]

    1. Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar
    2. In the search box type: browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh
    3. Click on the little + symbol on the right. It should look like after you pressed it: boolean true value
    4. Go to firefox Settings → Search. Or enter this in the address bar: about:preferences#search
    5. In the "Search Shortcuts" section you should notice a new "add" button. search add button
    6. Press the add button and fill in the name, search engine url and a keyword(optional).
    7. Go to the "Default Search Engine" section and select the engine you just added.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/7327/how-to-add-a-custom-sea...

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joveian2y ago· 1 in thread

Neat, I kept thinking there should be a way to add keywords to that list and now I know how to do it (execept for some reason you can only add a new engine with a keyword there and not add a keyword to an existing engine :( ). I use mozlz4 and aeson-pretty to look at the search.json.mozlz4 file.

https://github.com/jusw85/mozlz4

https://github.com/informatikr/aeson-pretty

To be fair you can also just right click on the URL bar when on a page that advertises having a search and click Add <name of search>. Or if you want to search by keyword you can right click on most search boxes and click "add a keyword for this search". Mycroft Project has a bunch of random search engines ready to add to Firefox (via right clicking on the URL bar when on the search entry page):

https://mycroftproject.com/

If you use more than one search engine, I like the Right Click Search addon to be able to search highlighted text with multiple engines easily (unfortunately not monitored by Mozilla but you can look over the code before installing and turn off updates since it is quite simple and requires no permissions):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/right-click- search/

The most privacy friendly way to search is to search the site you want to end up on when you know what site that is and they have a usable search.

For general search engines, I suggest giving Metager a try, it is a non-profit metasearch.

https://metager.org/

mrweasel2y ago

> For search engines, I suggest giving Metager a try

Cool, might as well give it a go while Ecosia is down. Thanks.

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1. Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar 2. In the search box type: browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh 3. Click on the little + symbol on the right. It should look like after you pressed it: boolean true value 4. Go to firefox Settings → Search. Or enter this in the address bar: about:preferences#search 5. In the "Search Shortcuts" section you should notice a new "add" button. search add button 6. Press the add button and fill in the name, search engine url and a keyword(optional). 7. Go to the "Default Search Engine" section and select the engine you just added.