Reviews for Add custom search engine
Add custom search engine by Tom Schuster
477 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Charles, 6 years agoThis is a lifesaver if you've come from Chrome, which is much better for search engine customization. It works very nicely, and unlike another add-on I tried, it will find the appropriate favicon for the search engine on its on.
Only real flaw is after you add a search engine, when you add the next it will by default continue using the last favicon. You have to always delete the current custom favicon url before entering the next search string if you want the write icon.
If you add a different url it should find the proper favicon. Short of that, there should be a "clear" button so I don't have to select and delete.
Also it won't let you add a nickname, but I'm assuming that's a limitation of Firefox. - Rated 5 out of 5by filtys00, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Juhani Naskali, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13949488, 6 years agoCould you please tell me how to add a search engine using payload of JSON or XML format?
Developer response
posted 6 years agoI am not sure what this means. You can see the documentation at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch. "application/x-suggestions+json" can be used for suggestions when entering you search query. In general we can only support what Firefox supports. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15397798, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tipar, 6 years agoEasy to use if you know a little about search engines. It worked on criticker with https://www.criticker.com/?search=%s It does what I needed, add the search directly into the search bar as Wikipedia; Duck, etc.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Corrie , 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by RA.AZ, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AcidCrash, 6 years agoHi here.
Taking into account the following news what is the future of this extension?
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/15/search-engine-add-ons-to-be-removed-from-addons-mozilla-org/ - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15322062, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by maxoku, 6 years agoGreat add-on, but it would be nice if it had an instruction. What exactly am I suppose to type in suggest url to get suggestions in search bar?
Edit: Oki thanks, I've found what I was looking for and it works now.Developer response
posted 6 years agoI am afraid I can't help you directly. You just have to know where to get that information. Most search engines don't actually support suggestions, but for example DuckDuckGo uses https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list as seen in their OpenSearch XML: https://duckduckgo.com/opensearch.xml - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14672395, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15288933, 6 years agoThank you,
I think i had a virus which made amazon my default search engine and trying to restore to default would only bring back amazon, none of firefox's reccomendations on solving the problem worked,( whi did they fucking remove the manual management of engines).
thx u saved me a lot of time. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14559003, 6 years agoAn awsome plug-in BUT I can not find a way for changing the sequence of the custom search engines I've made.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Synetech, 6 years agoWorks like a charm. 👍
I don't know why Mozilla still has not added this basic functionality to Firefox. 😕 It's been available in even the first version Chrome. ¬_¬
Thankfully this add-on provides this necessary function and is compatible with Quantum (a previous add-on that did this was not and was remove). - Rated 3 out of 5by Andreas, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15213198, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kkocdko, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by zeefox1*, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13481684, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Amrozi, 6 years agoI had to use this because just adding startpage.com as the default search engine in Firefox for Android didn't work correctly; when selecting text and then selecting "StartPage.com Search" option only opened a blank startpage without the query. Using this add-on, I was able to add https://www.startpage.com/search/?q=%s and now searching for selected text opens a startpage with the query!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vidur, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Thomas, 6 years ago