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maria2101
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Status: New idea

I still miss the ability to add a custom search engine in Firefox Desktop, which has been there in Firefox for Android for years. Kinda weird that Android has an option the desktop version lacks of. Or do I need to enable dev mode or something in the config?

Clicking "find more search engines" only leads to the addons page. On android however, you can add your own site and you can then directly search it from the address bar, for example I added https://www.m.dict.cc/?s=%s to quickly lookup dict.cc for translations, it directly searches for the word I type in.

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

gor1kartem
Strollin' around

You can actually add your website as a search engine. Go to "https://www.dict.cc/?s=", then right-click on a search bar and you will be given the option to add it as a search engine. However, this does not always work. I can't add "https://learn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/search/". So Mozilla should definitely add it.

bryant183
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Why can't you add a custom search engine by adding a URL? We all need this function! The browser can have your search engine, but the customized search engine is also necessary! The current way is very troublesome!
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

(Note: a similar idea has been merged into this thread)

maria2101
New member

@gor1kartemthank you! it's at least something.

emvaized
Strollin' around

You can install custom search engines from Mycroftproject — there's plenty of them, and you can submit more.

Also, you can visit about:config page and set browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh flag as "true" — this way you'll be able to add any search engine you want.

a2kolbasov
Strollin' around

Firefox Desktop supports adding your own search engines, but it's very strange.

  1. Right-click on the input field.
  2. Select "Add a Keyword for this Search".
  3. Enter your keyword for this search engine and save it.

As a result, the search engine will be added as a bookmark. It will not appear among other search engines. But you can search for it by entering “you_keyword your_query” in the address bar.