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I think the easiest way to change search engine is to expose some UI when you browse to that site. For example if you go to google.com there could be a little
by thrownaway2424 12y ago
I think the easiest way to change search engine is to expose some UI when you browse to that site. For example if you go to google.com there could be a little dingus in the address bar that you click to make that your search engine.
I'm stealing this idea from Chrome, which already does that, somehow. If you go to a webmail site, there's a thing on the right of the omnibox, just left of the star, and if you click it that place becomes your mailto: url handling site.
As for search engines, Chrome has IMHO the dead-easiest way to install these of all. You only have to have gone to the site once. After that you get tab shortcuts for searching on that engine. There is a UI, but I've never seen or used it because why would you need to?
- yeukhon 12y agoI don't remember if setting search via click had ever been done, but certainly when I was a kid (10-12 years ago), I vaguely remember when I visited sites like Yahoo, there would be an underlined text that read "click here to set this to be your homepage!" I don't remember if it was actually possible without user to confirm or not, but I supposed the security reason prevents that from happening today. The closest thing I can see is bookmarklet which is also very dangerous.
- glandium 12y agoFirefox does this already, if the web site has a <link rel="search">. Go, for example, to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/, which I know has that, now click on the drop down to select a search engine, there's a 'Add "Bugzilla@Mozilla"' item. Sure, discoverability is left to be desired.
- yeukhon 12y agoInteresting, how was this done without installing addon? Is this bundled into Firefox? I also can add DDG doing this but not for some other search engines though.