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Quicksaver / The-Fox--Only-Better

A Firefox add-on to improve the feeling of using the new Australis theme.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/the-fox-only-better/
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configurable adaptable search bar - user expressions #190

Open atomGit opened 8 years ago

atomGit commented 8 years ago

waiting for a very long time for the feature where by we can create our own RegEx for our custom search engines for the adaptable search bar

xoxo

Quicksaver commented 8 years ago

To search in those engines or to retrieve the searched term from one of those engines results pages into the location bar?

atomGit commented 8 years ago

hi Quicksaver!

yes: to retrieve the searched term from one of those engines results pages into the location bar

you said that the hard-coded engines would give way to a user editable option where we could add our own expressions and i was just wondering if that's still on your plate ???

Quicksaver commented 8 years ago

It is, but it's not just regular expressions, as many search pages don't give you the search term in the location for example. Pretty much every page will require some sort of DOM exploration to get the correct term, and that's complicated.

atomGit commented 7 years ago

Pretty much every page will require some sort of DOM exploration to get the correct term ...

many search engines provide an option to use POST or GET - if using GET, then the search terms are present in the URL (address bar) from which they can be grabbed with a RegExp

would really like to have at least this functionality if you can't get POST working

failing that, can you add searx.me for now?

thanks