Startpage or Whoogle as a default search engine in Firefox

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It's pretty annoying to see google, bing and yandex as my default search engines on the fresh installation, and these two engines are both privacy-aware and user-friendly. I would enjoy seeing them every time when I replace them with searx.

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Thats a pretty good suggestion! Afaik Firefox doesnt allow setting this easily by default however shipping the startpage addon might do the trick?

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i have startpage as default search enging with add-on
and New Tab Override when i open a new tab there is searx
and only the startpage from firefox can change to every side you wish in settings

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bitte nicht zu laut lachen ^^
aber das ist einfach zu einfach

1.visit the site you want to add as search engine
2. click the 3 horizontal dots button on the address bar/search bar and there u will find the option to add as search engine
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thatz all

ich hab es selbst ausprobiert klappte nicht mit meinem ersten searx server weil vielleicht onion benutzt aber der 2te funktionierte

viel spaß

euer nickschecka

please don't laugh too loud ^^
but this is just too easy

1.visit the site you want to add as search engine
2. click the 3 horizontal dots button on the address bar/search bar and there u will find the option to add as search engine
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thatz all

i tried it myself it didn't work with my first searx server because maybe onion is used but the 2nd one worked

have fun

your nickschecka

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We could cince GNU icecat is shipping instead of firefox in next release so maybe then we could.

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I ran the terminal commands for whoogle via manual install. It works. When I exit terminal, whoogle no longer functions. I know that using whoogle with the manual install method requires terminal to continue running in the background.

After I had whoogle open on Firefox, I added it as a search engine.

Do I have to enter these manual setup terminal commands every time I want to use whoogle?

Also, the address bar has a lock icon that says site is not secure. Is this normal?

Thank you,

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The one from its Github? This requires to create & enable a systemd service for constant service.
You can just install whoogle-git and be done with it :smiley:

As its running on localhost we dont need HTTPs

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Oh okay, thanks. Ill do that. :+1:

Yes, It was from github.

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It is in use now. Thanks for suggestion