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tomman:

ugh, forgot it's April 1st at many European timezones

oh

well yeah that explains it..

PSA: it's already April 1st at most timezones - please refrain from using the Internet until April 2th at least, thanks and fly safe~

One day is much like another

Trump is in power and its nothing but cruel stupidity everywhere

so not really following the exact date anymore

I just don't follow it because I'm not USAian

and most pranks are very USAian in nature

time and space are fucked anyway.. it feels like its been years already

plus, we don't even follow April Fools in Hispanic countries

ours is at December 28th ("Innocent's Day")

tomman: it's really kinda dumb lol

a better joke would be to announce libera was remerging with freenode under their rules

I've noticed that duckduckgo is broken now. Is there a relatively unobtrusive way to swap the default ddg search engine for html.duckduckgo.com ?

Grepping for duckduckgo.com in my profile didn't turn up any useful results as far as I can tell

hahahaha libera merging with freenode lolz

Tekk: add it as a search engine, then set it as default

Tekk: If you have the search bar visible, the drop-down should show an option to add it at the end (based on what the current web page has)

the website navigation bar will show that entry too (under "More"?) but won't offer a way to add

gitlab wip and 2.53 updated

a third alternative is project mycroft, which has several "search plugins"

the issue here is that it has to be added with JS, opening the XML specification directly won't offer that option IIRC

in previous versions, it was possible to drop the XML file in the searchplugins subdirectory of the profile directory, I'm not sure if this is still migrated somehow without destroying the current storage of known search plugins, so it's not an option

njsg: yes that ability was busted before 52

in the 40s

I thought it was more recent than that, at least in SeaMonkey, but time does fly, and it's possible the last few times I used that I was relying on the *migration*

i reverted the whole thing back in UXP.. i could do the same for SeaMonkey but there is no migration from newer to older.. older user profiles may have to readd some and newer profiles will be reset effectively on search plugins which really shouldn't be that big of a deal since I am sure the users would prefer to have direct control of search plugins vs having to repopulate it .. easier

easier .. once

ye

file in searchplugins should still work but you might need to delete the search json in the profile

yeah you can trigger migration but its destructive and getting them back out.. not so easy

i simply disagree with how mozilla changed this ahead of dropping opensearch plugins

i think installing searchplugins by user from mycroft doesn't work anymore in latest firefox

but i'd have to check

UXP's search service is dirived from a slightly modified version from gecko/44

the big difference from the application perspective is needing to go back to only reconizing current search engine as the concept of a default search engine is a Firefox Australis exclusive technology and without the extra UI to make use of it.. it can be difficult to deal with especially in suite's code

as far as I remember suite's mechinism for installing search engines off the web is provided by the sidebar code

but not the toolkit version of the code

SeaMonkey's as of 2.49 was also less advanced as it requires the js call from content to have a fully qualified url while Firefox/Pale Moon could use reletive urls

that's all i remember aboot it

are there any "stealth" firefox extensions that advertise their role as mobile extensions? i was able to unnecessarily install a mobile clone tab extension (localization was the culprit of my failure to properly scan the menu) on my makerspace's laser cutter control pc's ff and wondered if it _could_ also have offered me regular-ff-ui.

bonus points: sm extensions that are advertised as mobile on ff's addon site.

Thanks njsg . I somehow missed that my search bar was missing.

It was smart enough to pick the html page as its own search

(also note there are at least two different search engine selections, search bar/field and search sidebar, just in case this ever surprises you)

Nah, that part I was able to figure out. I was surprised that adding the search engine in the search bar also set the search engine in the url bar though

PSA: if Science.org tries to Clownflare you, try deleting all locally stored data by the site (including cookies)

if you don't do that, you MAY be able to load the article you want, but the assets may 403 because their Clownflare implementation is finicky