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That article is only about OpenSearch addons from addons.mozilla.org. While I don't see a good reason to remove them, I also don't see a good reason to keep the

by franga2000 7y ago

That article is only about OpenSearch addons from addons.mozilla.org. While I don't see a good reason to remove them, I also don't see a good reason to keep them. The OpenSearch discovery feature is staying and I haven't heard of any efforts to remove it. Or am I missing something?

heavyset_go 7y ago
That article is about add-ons from AMO that use the OpenSearch provider API, but it mentions eventually deprecating OpenSearch from Firefox, too. It's been touched upon on HN in the past[1]. However, I was wrong about OpenSearch providing the functionality that the "Add keyword for this search" bookmark feature implements. That feature is completely independent from OpenSearch and isn't going anyway. "Add keyword for this search" via bookmarks are not going anywhere in Firefox as far as I can tell. This was a false alarm on my part. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21291131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21291131