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?
What? Settings: search for search. Change default. Click find more search engines. It offers hundreds of them.
This was not hard, nor obfuscated.
I’ve reinstalled Firefox to test this and followed your direction. I can’t see anymore search engines than previously stated
Right there where it says Find More Search Engines:.
Or the other way, go to on any site, click the search bar and the option to add it as a search appears at the bottom of the search bar: https://i.imgur.com/c3bFc7g.png
I went to the Quant website, and then it offered for me to add it as a search, hence the + symbol. Or click the settings button to “Find more search engines”.
I will admit that having to browse through Firefox extensions is not as easy, but the ability to add an engine at any time, without even using settings, simply by visiting the web page is pretty simple.
Edit: I didnt find it hard at all, using the keyword search in the settings menu. But they also have a guide: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox#w_add-search-engines
This also works with Searx/ng!
Do you pick your instance and then add it, or does it let you differentiate between them?
it’s treated as a different search site
Addons, I would avoid as they make it easier to fingerprints and also its the long way around, if all I want to do is add a URL like google.com or bing then why should I add an extension
Perhaps it is easier for them to have search engines offer their services through that avenue?
But it doesnt matter, if you go to any site that has search, all you have to do is click the + “add search engine” right in the address bar. Doesnt get much easier.
Even sites like Shodan work.
But it was much easier lol and logical
To you maybe. I don’t remember the URL search strings of every search engine, so the method of adding a search engine via the page of the search itself is far easier.