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by coverband 1550 days ago
Could you paste again as text links? Thanks.
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Firefox uses a custom format for compressing the SEARCH ENGINES. I am appalled.

I had to do a `pip install lz4` then apply and run this change: https://gist.github.com/Tblue/62ff47bef7f894e92ed5?permalink...

And it did not work. I hit a brick wall. I completely lost trust in Firefox. I want a browser created by a non-profit. Thank you Google for corrupting everything you touch.

I then found this blessed soul: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ffu/searchjson.html

And here are the ones not built-in:

https://metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe={searchTerms}

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&se...

https://www.mojeek.com/search?q={searchTerms}

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search

https://pypi.org/search/?q={searchTerms}

https://www.qwant.com/?q={searchTerms}&client=opensearch

https://searx.xyz/

https://swisscows.com/opensearch.xml

https://yandex.com/search/?text={searchTerms}&from=os&clid=1...

https://whoogle.sdf.org/search

https://lazyweb.ai/nav/

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&format...

https://github.com/search?q={searchTerms}&ref=opensearch

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term={searchTerms}

http://alternativeto.net/browse/search/?q={searchTerms}

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query={searchTerms}&ref=...

https://kagi.com/search?q={searchTerms}

https://you.com/search?q={searchTerms}

https://millionshort.com/search?keywords={searchTerms}&remov...

https://search.f-droid.org/?q={searchTerms}&opensearch=1

https://www.gnod.com/search/

http://teclis.com:1333/?topics={searchTerms}

https://wiby.me/?q={searchTerms}

https://www.alexandria.org/?q={searchTerms}

Some of these (Andi, nee Lazyweb; You; SwissCows) are Bing proxies. Gnod is a search launcher, not an engine unto itself.

Many more installable engines are available at https://mycroftproject.com as OpenSearch XML plugins, compatible with Firefox and discoverable by Chromium.

Thanks! I will remove duplicates.