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Written by Charlotte Aten on 2024-11-23 at 22:16

Did you know that desktop Firefox hides the ability to set custom search engines from users? I finally got fed up with DuckDuckGo and decided to make the change. In order to do this, you need to:

1. Go to about:config in your address bar.

2. Search for browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh

3. Click the + symbol to the right to change this setting to "true".

4. Under "Search" in the settings menu you will now see that you have a new "Add" button.

5. Click that, and you will be able to include a custom url for searches.

To get this url, the easiest thing to do is make a search in the desired engine, copy the resulting url (maybe removing some garbage, if you know how) and then changing the search query to %s

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[#]Firefox #search #SearchEngine #Mozilla #DuckDuckGo

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Written by Charlotte Aten on 2024-11-23 at 22:21

For example, if you want to search arxiv.org, you can try typing in "asdf" into the search box, which yields

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=asdf&searchtype=all&source=header

Probably "source" is pointless tracking, but it turns out "searchtype" is required, so my final entry into Firefox is

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=%s&searchtype=all

I hope this helps more people switch to better options for search.

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[#]search #SearchEngine #Firefox #arXiv

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Written by Tanguy Fardet on 2024-11-24 at 08:47

@caten note that for most "standard" search engines (startpage, ecosia, wikipedia...) you can right click on the URL bar and click the "add XXX" that appear at the bottom

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