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Since when did Firefox make it so difficult to set custom search engine? (feddit.uk)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by squid@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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So been moving around a lot with browsers, waterfox, librewolf and very recently degoogle chromium, figured id look at Firefox and holy theres less than half the option in setting then there were afew years back but I gotta say the biggest sin is that adding custom search engine is obfuscated, and the chooses of engines are google, bing, duckduckgo and fucking Amazon! Wtf is that about? But anyway all these search engines are pretty awful including duckduckgo but beyond that the browser scene is a joke, mullvad are about the only company I feel compatible with using now

Edit: instead of saying how easy it is to add custom search engines, I'd like to know why the "add search engine" feature in settings is gone?

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[-] tio@social.trom.tf 8 points 11 months ago

@squid True...Harder now to add a custom search engine unless you visit it and then click the url on top to get a dropdown to add it...but manually adding it is hard.

Speaking of search engines I highly recommend searx.neocities.org/ - it randomly uses the best Searx instances. No ads, no tracking...

[-] squid@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

I've heard of searx never used it though

[-] tio@social.trom.tf 1 points 11 months ago

@squid I use it daily. We ran an instance too. It is simply great. As good as Google, DDG, and the like are, since it is using them.

[-] squid@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

So its an agitator, will it directly communicate with googelz bing ddg? Or does it use an IP hiding techniques?

[-] tio@social.trom.tf 5 points 11 months ago

@squid

Searx does not share users' IP addresses or search history with the search engines from which it gathers results.

- read more here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx and see the source code here github.com/searxng/searxng

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I'd love to try using it more. How do you add it to Firefox?

[-] tio@social.trom.tf 2 points 11 months ago

@smallaubergine @squid

https://searx.neocities.org/ most search engines get recognized in Firefox. Simply visit the link then right click the url and you should see a menu entry like: Add Searx as your search engine.

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you! I guess I should have mentioned I'm on mobile. But it was pretty easy to add manually once I read the directions

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