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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by gpanders on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:53PM (#23519698)
> 3 - can't add a custom search engine. You have to add its extension, if available. Or add as a bookmark with a keyword, but then you won't be able to see a list of all search engines...

As a full time, happy Firefox user, this annoys me to no end, increasingly so as there are more and more competing search engines that I want to try.

I’m pretty sure that you used to be able to add arbitrary search engines too (by specifying the search URL with %q for the search query). It’s amazing to me that they would remove this.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by FalconSensei on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:38PM (#23520077)
> more and more competing search engines that I want to try

Not only that, but on Chrome I have Amazon, Youtube, Reddit, all setup as search engines. For reddit, besides 'rdt' for general search, I also added keywords for searching inside /r/anime, /books, /ps4, and a few other subs I occasionally search.

I also think they used to have this, as Chrome still has. But no idea why they changed it.

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