Comment by mmphosis
3 years ago
That was painful.
https://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=frogfind...
Hi, my understanding is that with very few exceptions, if a search engine is included in Firefox it is because Mozilla and the search engine have a contract and Mozilla makes some money from the arrangement. It's hard for outsiders to know what will be added or removed in the future.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/bring-back-recent...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/category...
is what firefox points me to if I click on find more search engines from the settings
I started using one called Context Search[0] which let me set custom URLs to be searched on right-click. I needed something to search selected text on an intranet php search page, seems to work okay so far.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contextual-se...
I just read up a bit. What a weird development. I normally resort to user scripts and bookmarklets to transport the search query between pages. Didn't know things got this bad.
Clicking on an open search js link[0] also doesn't seem to work anymore.
I've added auto discovery[1] here which seems to work. FrogFind should add this bloat to their pages :)
[0] - javascript:window.external.AddSearchProvider('http://blog.go-here.nl/yacy-opensearch.xml');
[1] - http://blog.go-here.nl/8603