Adding custom search engines

[maria2101]

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.

[Jon]

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[grg1]

Allow users to add custom search engines and make a custom engine the default

Google Chrome allows users to add custom search engines (e.g., I can customize DuckDuckGo to specific parameters: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&kp=-2&kav=1&kae=d&kn=1&k1=-1&kk=-1&kak=-1&kax=-1)

Why can I not add search engines like this and select one of them to be my default search engine? Firefox used to have this capability. Why did you remove it? Add it back?

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Others
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/custom-search-engines-like-chrome/m-p/23892
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/search-engine-customization/m-p/63165

[LGM159]

Add my vote for the feature that all other search engines use: adding custom search engines. In my case, I want to add search settings to common searches that I perform, e.g. searching google but eliminating youtube videos from the search results.  In any chrome-based browser, you open settings for search engines and add your own, and here's a common one for me:
Name: Google sans youtube
Shortcut: gg
URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s+-site%3Ayoutube.com&hl=en

The above method is simple, fully customizable, and works in any Chrome-based browser, verified with Chrome, Edge, Opera, and Brave.

PS The method proposed in prior posting in this thread don't always work, desktop or mobile, it doesn't matter as there is apparently a secret algorithm that triggers being able to save an URL. Furthermore, even when you can save an URL, you're not allowed to edit it. So much for customizing.

[YPAP2205]

Kinda strange why this option was removed. I remember  being  able to add custom search engines. Then all of a sudden after an update that setting just  disappeared. I'd rather add search engines manually like in chrome, instead of installing extensions for a search engine to be added.

[GiantJordan]

So they moved how they do it.
I just added one.

I went to the site that had a search bar on it.
On the search bar of firefox the magnifying glass changed to add a green plus symbol.
I right clicked on it and there was an icon for the page I was on also with the green plus.
Click that and it adds it to firefox.
I am on version 130.0

This doesn't appear to work on everything however it did work for the site I wanted it to, help.mikrotik.com/

[mlm]

Was this removed or am I confusing this with chrome? Would really like to be able to adjust my search links. One example can be seen above. Not having to install extensions just for something that should be an alrady exiting database table. (Because somewhere the "Search Shortcuts" has to get its information from.)

[mlm]

Should this not be already possible, is it an adjustment of the DB needed? Because it should be possible without it, or where does "Search Shortcuts" gets its data? it also should have the link like "search-engine/?s=$1" stored, just that it should be possible to adjust the stored link.

[cane1]

Yes and yes.

[cshankar00]

We need this.

[benvim]

I think people are referring to two different ideas. There is go to a site, find the search box, and add that particular search.

But there is also copy a full URL with custom options for a search and add that URL as a search engine.

Personally, I use the latter approach. In Chrome, I possibly have 100 or more of them (they are great for search parameters that are in the URL). I would be 100% Firefox if it had this. But my search engine URLs are all highly customized searches and Firefox doesn't seem to have an equivalent. Though there is the Add custom search engine extension. But for such an obvious power user feature, it would really be nice if by now it was built in.

[Ale_A_C]

Oye sí, recuerdo que sí se podía en Firofox destock (¡No estaba loco!), en celular me gusta bastante, me simplifica muchos proceso por ser más directo. Acabo de iniciar sesión en esto del feedback porque ya no soporto un día más sin esa función ¡Cómo lo extraño! :'c

Hey, yes, I remember that you could use destock on Firofox (I wasn't crazy!), but I like it a lot on my cell phone, it simplifies many processes for me because it's more direct. I just logged into this feedback thing because I can't stand another day without that function. How I miss it! :'c

[mortal_engin3]

In Firefox Android search engines can be added using a search string, which in my opinion is an excellent option. Please add such an option in Firefox Desktop too.

[Jon]

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