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Apple Gets 36% of Google's Safari Search Revenue (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast

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[–] subtext 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem is not whether or not the site supported open search, the problem is that Firefox should have allowed me to easily and intuitively set a custom search engine. When I go into Google Chrome and want to set a search engine, I can easily figure it out. Having to change an about:config flag is not at all intuitive.

For the record, I was trying to save my bookmarklet URL from DuckDuckGo and the open search functionality wasn’t working to save my bookmarklet query string.

[–] Rootiest 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh yeah I see what you mean now, that is dumb.

I didn't realize they removed the ability to manually add a search engine (without flipping flags)

Somebody should compile a list of flags you might wanna toggle/change on a new install of FF. Actually I imagine someone already has