Add search engine sorting in Firefox for Android

[Ponda]

Add search engine sorting in Firefox for Android

Currently search engine sorting is present on desktop and even iOS versions, but not Android. While this feature is just a small improvment, its lack can be very annoying. For example, in all my browsers except for phone I have engines in following order: general searches, Polish Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, other specialised engines (in custom order). On phone I have DDG, Qwant, English Wikipedia, Startpage, Polish Wikipedia, specialised engines. Unluckily keyboard hides Polish Wikipedia and other custom searches which eventually led me to forgetting I added them. The only way I can fix it on my own is through removing all of the engines and adding custom ones in right order, hoping I won’t make any mistake in the process or that I won’t want to add one more that’s shouldn’t be at the end, like Brave or Wikipedia i third language. Hopefully my example shows can useful this feature is and how annoying its lack can be.

[Stíophan]

Suggestion -

Option to Reorder/Sort the list of Search Engines.

[Jon]

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[jscher2000]

Hi, could you try this:

Open the Settings (Preferences) page. In the left column, click Search. On the right side, scroll to the bottom.

You should find a box under the heading "Search Shortcuts". In this box, you can drag and drop search engines up and down to change the order.

Does that work on yours?

[MintMain21]

As jscher2000 said, you can sort search engines on Desktop. It's Android that I think would benefit from this.

[Ponda]

Dear jscheer2000, no, unluckily it doesn’t. As I and MintMain21 (wait what is my computer doing here) mentioned, this suggestion applies to Android. On desktop and iOS search sorting exists, but on Android it can’t be found anywhere.

[carmelo]

👍Completely agree.

[Adr]

Sorting by usage (most used at the top) would be good, but if you can customize the order yourself, that would be fine too.