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Custom Search Engine Creation (self.fedora)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by atrielienz to c/[email protected]

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I've recently installed Bazzite (Fedora) on a Legion Go. I wanted to add my custom search engine to Firefox but I have no options for it. I have seen threads suggesting to just right click and add. Right click with a traditional mouse works but not in the search settings menu where I would add anything. Is this possible? (I did try to search Lemmy for this problem but didn't come back with any results). I'm still looking for a solution using different search engines but a lot of data is out of date.

Edit: I found a solution that works for me. I typed in the URL of my custom search engine and right clicked on it and had the option to add it as a custom search option. It then appeared in settings/search/default search engine in the drop down menu as an option. I can now hopefully set a shortcut etc.

I'm leaving this up in case anyone finds it useful.

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[–] turbowafflz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah that's like the only thing I hate about firefox compared to chromium, adding search engines is so unintuitive

[–] atrielienz 1 points 1 month ago

I still haven't figured out how to give it a shortcut using this method but once it was figured out my mind kind of wandered so I'm sure I'll get there eventually.

[–] eruchitanda 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Add custom search engine by Tom Schuster.

[–] atrielienz 1 points 1 month ago

This was one of the first things I tried. It did not work for me and my understanding from reading further is that it may not any longer be supported.