Why doesn’t firefox use searx.me as its default search engine and doesn’t even offer it as a suggestion, as suggest Bing, Yahoo, Google and others?

  • imabritishcow@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 years ago

    If you go to a searx instance and click on the 3 dots near your extensions on the right of the screen in the URL bar, there should be an option to add it as a search engine

    • gabor@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      That didn’t work for me, searx homepage would open but it would not run the query. This is how I solved it:

      ~ about:config

      browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh = true

      ~ about:preferences#search - Add

      engine name = searx

      engine URL = https://<searx-instance-baseurl>/search?q=%s

      engine alias = @s