Mycroft Project Reviews and details

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• Downloading stuff.

  Not all websites publish OpenSearch information, however. If there's a site doesn't, search for it on Mycroft Project. Source: over 1 year ago

• My search engine options were wiped and I can't add search engines now

  Use https://mycroftproject.com/ for find the search engine that you want, click at the tab corner and you will see ``add (name of the engine´´ and you will get it. Source: over 1 year ago

• SearX Instance change?

  And then go to https://mycroftproject.com/ , search for that instance and just click in ``add´´. Source: over 1 year ago

• Add a search engine

  I've been using Mycroft Project to customize my search engine options. Source: over 1 year ago

• Adding Firefox search engine manually

  I am facing a similar problem and I found this post. I found this from Firefox's support docs: https://mycroftproject.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• How can I set address bar search suggestions to English/US?

  All methods install a search plugin using the OpenSearch standard, mycroftproject.com is the easiest way to do that. Other methods require an extension or don't support suggestions and you need to manually supply the search/suggest URLs. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What is the use for 2 search bars?

  I agree. Search bar, rocks! I like to keep my searches separate and isolated from google or whoever else is snooping. I've added in specific search engines from the Mycroft Project to the search bar to do just that. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search

  Adding to the protip: there is https://mycroftproject.com that is full of premade custom search engines to save you the hassle of making them manually. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• How do I make Petal Search my default engine?

  You can find it here: https://mycroftproject.com. Source: about 2 years ago

• Alexandria Search

  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. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• How to add search engines from Mycroft Project?

  I used to be able to add search engines from Mycroft and from context menu on a search box within a website, and assign a keyword. When using this keyword on the search/URL bar, the icon of the search engine appears and I can add the terms to search. Source: about 2 years ago

• Firefox has removed the Yandex search engine. Sanctions?

  You could always check Mycroft project first. Source: about 2 years ago

• Remove "garbage" text from the address bar when I do a search

  I tried installing another Google search engine. To do this I tried Mycroft Project (although the Google versions I tested added more undesirable content to the address bar) and the ContextSearch web-ext add-on (in this case I added a "clean" Google version: https://www. google.com/search?q={searchTerms}); however, when I use them as default, the search suggestions no longer appear when I type something in the... Source: about 2 years ago

• how's my shortcuts customization, this is my one of the more reason why love firefox love the toolbar customization too.

  In 1st case, sites have to use OpenSearch search engine to make it appear as a search engine. Most of the sites won't use that [Including reddit] There is a work around site called Mycroft Project. Firefox support have an article on how to add a search engine like that. Follow it add your personal search engines. Source: about 2 years ago

• Mozilla was unable to secure formal permission to continue including certain search engines in Firefox.

  Not sure what that would achieve, you are free to remove the built-in search engines and add your own with OpenSearch (eg mycroftproject.com) and extensions. Source: about 2 years ago

• Mozilla was unable to secure formal permission to continue including certain search engines in Firefox.

  Would Mozilla need permission from a search engine to display a link to a search engine and to offer up an OpenSearch install of the engine? I don't know - that isn't really clear to me. Mozilla isn't getting permission from ad hoc search engines to enable the "add" feature in the address bar to enable addition of search engines, and I would also assume that no one is granting https://mycroftproject.com permission... Source: about 2 years ago

• custom search for Firefox?

  You can use mycroftproject.com to create/install search engines. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is it no longer possible to easily and straightforward add a custom search engine based on url?

  If you want an icon you can use mycroftproject.com. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is there a way to edit the default search engines?

  You can disable the built in ones and install new ones from https://mycroftproject.com. Source: over 2 years ago

• How do you add a custom search engine?

  Visit mycroftproject.com and install an existing Searx plugin or create your own. Source: over 2 years ago

• How do you add custom search engines?

  Find a ready-made XML file on a site such as: https://mycroftproject.com/. Source: almost 3 years ago