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by jonReadingNews 1092 days ago
I was hesitant to configure my partner’s devices (family plan) to set as default engine but eventually convinced them and they haven’t even brought it up once since. I assume no news is good news! I would be less hesitant to recommend to other non-tech friends/family if it were easier to configure as default on Safari. Heck, I’d even entertain gifting subscriptions. The quality of results for me has been incredibly reliable. Enjoyable, even. And, I didn’t even take the time to start configuring these kinds of rules. Love this. Great product. Wishing long, lasting success.
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Thank you very much for the kind words.

Unfortunately we can not influence the choices that Safari makes, but we did pull an effort to build an entire browser [1] to replace it because of that :)

[1] https://browser.kagi.com

Any progress on a Linux version?
We haven't begun work on the Linux version of the browser yet. We will need to significantly expand our team before undertaking the development of a browser for a new platform.
Please make a browser for Linux too. And please make it based on Firefox preferably.

Thank you. Lots of love to Kagi, though I'm not a paying user yet but I do love what you folks are doing and want to f*ck Google.

> And please make it based on Firefox preferably.

The macOS browser is based on WebKit. If the team can’t justify the Linux version yet, changing it to a whole different engine (and one which is notoriously hard to embed, by admission of Mozilla itself) is even less likely.

Why Firefox? What’s wrong with the WebKit they’re using already?
There's an alternative [1], so you can use any search engine. Although i always wonder about whether my privacy is at risk when using this app...

[1] xSearch for Safari: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xsearch-for-safari/id157990206...