Thread: Default browser and Mozilla services on Sailfish
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bennypr0fane is offline bennypr0fane
2013-12-06 , 00:49
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#10
Originally Posted by shmerl View Post
Someone asked whether it's possible to set DuckDuckGo as a preferred search engine in the default browser. While I don't have a device yet, it can be possible in theory. Can anyone please test this scenario:

1. Find your Mozilla profile directory. Usually it should be $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/<profile-dir> but I have no clue if it's the same on Sailfish.
2. Create searchplugins subdiretcory in there.
3. Create duckduckgo.xml search plugin in there, using the following: http://pastie.org/8517520
4. Open about:config and set:
Code:
browser.search.defaultenginename = DuckDuckGo
browser.search.selectedEngine = DuckDuckGo
5. Try searching anything and see what happens.
I try to follow this discussion (unfortunately I can't contribute), but
it's kinda not clear (well maybe guessable) whether what you're saying is about Firefox or the Sailfish browser (how about we call it Sailbro! I'm gonna do that now).
In the first paragraph you are referring to a question about Sailbro, then you're answering it about Firefox? Other than both using Gecko, do they have enough in common for that?
I gather the question is: can we, and if yes, how can we get things that work in FF to also work in Sailbro? E.g. make Sailbro sync with Firefox (that would be so cool), or set a custom default search engine. Is that the topic here?