Change default search engine

Using /e/OS Applications
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Hello all,

i would like to change my default search engine (qwant) to brave-search. I’ve found this howto for startpage: Add Startpage as search engine

But this did not work for brave-search. How can i change the search engine in e/OS’s web browser?

Very thanks :slight_smile:

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hm, supposedly if you run a search first… (so it can see the necessary query parameters of the url). But doesn’t work for me either for brave

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so cromite carries a patch since v120 that enables the desktop-chromium settings to set custom search engines - #556 #537 Enable search engine settings desktop ui in android · uazo/cromite@6fba336 · GitHub

but the /e/browser didn’t import that patch yet, even though it’s at v130… due to a incomplete script? at least it’s not picking up new patches, just updating existing ones. Or it’s intentional to hand-pick the patches.

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Well i’ve managed to do it months ago so it must not be that difficult.

3 dots > settings > search engine

It’s the first line in the settings.

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to an arbitrary opensearch provider that isn’t shipped with the defaults?

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to an arbitrary opensearch provider that isn’t shipped with the defaults?

I actually did exactly this earlier today! It’s not terribly intuitive, but it is easy.

  1. run a search in the search engine.
  2. close the browser completely (a ‘flick up’ or a force-stop from the App Info page).
  3. open the search page again.
  4. three dots → settings → search engine.
  5. add the search engine you just made.
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while that general howto applies, the issue is braves opensearch xml for it to register, so it won’t help in this case as far as I could determine

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Thanks for your answer.
I have just tested this. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with Brave-Search.

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It does for me. Just add search.brave.com

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I tested this again after the last big update. @VinK3645 but as you can see, the search engine does not appear. Do you have the exact steps you took?

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Running 2.5-t-20241108446629-official-FP5

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You’ve got the recently visited tab at the bottom of your settings. Try to visit brave a few times and see if it appears. For my part, the search engine was shown in the “popular in your region” section.

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Just a recommendation for SearXNG. A meta engine that includes both brave, qwant and DDG :blush:

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