Comment on YSK: It's possible to get search results from Google without the annoying 'AI' answers at the top

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would you need an extension for that? You can add other search engines right in the settings of firefox.

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  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No you cant. Engines either need to support the “OpenSearch” standard, which is useless because it only works for a few and only for default configurstion.

    Or they need to have an Extension themselves, which is a silly concept.

    Instead, this addon uses a URL (as it is supported in Firefox Mobile, Chrome, Edge, …) and converts it to an OpenSearch Search engine which you can then add.

    Afterwards you can remove the Addon.

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    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, you can. You just enter a url, and put the %s somewhere in the query params which firefox will replace with your query.

      I just tested this with my own website, which definitely does not support any OpenSearch standard, and it works exactly like you’d imagine (except the page doesn’t exist of course).

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      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Librewolf supports custom OpenSearch engines? Cool?

        Didnt know that. Firefox should absolutely support this again, needing an Addon is embarrassing

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Firefox supports custom search on iOS mobile.

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      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Okay

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