Searx.me on Firefox : firefox

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Google pays Mozilla to be default on Firefox. They are currently in a 3 year contract for it. In fact, this is a major source of income for Firefox and not having this deal would cripple Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

While completely understanding that an email client is orders of magnitude less than a browser resource wise and is not going head to head with a chrome monster, could you get 150M from a group of not google customers, move it into MZLA and operate firefox at 100x the cost of Thunderbird?

The entire Thunderbird project moved from being a part of Mozilla Foundation, which it was a part of since 2017, to the newly founded MZLA Technologies Corporation.

On the spending side, expenses amounted to $1.55 million US Dollars in 2020. Most of the money was spent on personnel, more than 82% ...

The Thunderbird team consists of 15 people currently, the majority are engineers ...

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/03/22/thunderbird-financial-report-2020-shows-strong-year-to-year-growth/

[+] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

I would suggest you to check out Librewolf https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

[+] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

If you go to a searx instance and click on the 3 dots near your extensions on the right of the screen in the URL bar, there should be an option to add it as a search engine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

That didn't work for me, searx homepage would open but it would not run the query. This is how I solved it:

~ about:config

browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh = true

~ about:preferences#search - Add

engine name = searx

engine URL = https:///search?q=%s

engine alias = @s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

It was recognized at one point but then ff updated and removed that function. Worst day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I have used https://mycroftproject.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

That looks actually really nice too. I knew this exists, but never got to look into it, to be honest. It might be the right time now, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

~~As far as I know, you have to use something like Add custom search engine extension. I am using SearX this way as a default search engine, and it works flawlessly.~~

Not necessary with SearX supporting OpenSearch. See @[email protected]'s comment below.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Google pays ff to use google shit has main search provider, use duckduckgo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Duckduckgo is the default search engine for Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Linux?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Android, no?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

ah ok. On some linux distros duckduckgo is the default one on ff, on android it's google you need to change it on definitions