[GH-ISSUE #92] [Waterfox] Unable set primary search engine #65

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opened 2026-02-25 20:34:49 +03:00 by kerem · 4 comments

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Originally created by @temporallyaccount on GitHub (Jun 19, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/92

Originally created by @temporallyaccount on GitHub (Jun 19, 2020). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/92

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@benbusby commented on GitHub (Jun 19, 2020):

I'll need more info on this. Does it give an error message? Can you access <instance url>/opensearch.xml? Does it say the search engine has been set but doesn't actually add it to the list under Waterfox preferences?

I have it set up on Firefox without any issues, but there could be an opensearch compatibility issue with Waterfox since they rely on older versions of Firefox (from what I recall at least, I could be way off).

@benbusby commented on GitHub (Jun 19, 2020): I'll need more info on this. Does it give an error message? Can you access `<instance url>/opensearch.xml`? Does it say the search engine has been set but doesn't actually add it to the list under Waterfox preferences? I have it set up on Firefox without any issues, but there could be an opensearch compatibility issue with Waterfox since they rely on older versions of Firefox (from what I recall at least, I could be way off).

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@temporallyaccount commented on GitHub (Jun 20, 2020):

I thought you use it and no, they have both versions as i think. Waterfox only allows to add custom search engines through "Find more search engines" then it redirect to addons page.

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@temporallyaccount commented on GitHub (Jun 20, 2020): I thought you use it and no, they have both versions as i think. Waterfox only allows to add custom search engines through "Find more search engines" then it redirect to addons page. Waterfox Current

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@temporallyaccount commented on GitHub (Jun 20, 2020):

So i have to open an issue in his repository but never get fixed easily then any other technical way to solve that?

@temporallyaccount commented on GitHub (Jun 20, 2020): So i have to open an issue in his repository but never get fixed easily then any other technical way to solve that?

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@benbusby commented on GitHub (Jun 23, 2020):

Ah I see. Unfortunately I'm not sure of a different way to fix that. I'll close this issue for now since it's not really a Whoogle issue, but I'll revisit this if I have some time to look into how Waterfox is implementing search engines and see if there's a way of just manually inserting the opensearch file.

@benbusby commented on GitHub (Jun 23, 2020): Ah I see. Unfortunately I'm not sure of a different way to fix that. I'll close this issue for now since it's not really a Whoogle issue, but I'll revisit this if I have some time to look into how Waterfox is implementing search engines and see if there's a way of just manually inserting the opensearch file.