Closed orropid closed 4 years ago
Not sure what you are talking about? The dropdown in the address bar is the "new way" of adding a search engine. It definitely still exists and works.
I am talking about this:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1279774 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1289240 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1290046 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1284323
The missing drop-down, which the addon now requires.
At least two other users pointed out the issue in their reviews: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-custom-search-engine/reviews/?src=search
They were instructed to start a thread here. They haven't, so I did.
Oh you are talking about that down arrow. You have to click the three dots ···. https://github.com/evilpie/add-custom-search-engine/blob/master/icons/urlbar.png There should be instructions pointing that out. Are those missing for you?
Yes, the three dot thing is gone. That is the problem.
That sounds like some kind of CSS modification or custom preferences gone wrong. Does it reproduce with a new profile?
This was it! A line in the CSS kept the page action button in the url bar hidden, even after the about:config tweaks:
Since other people also had this problem, maybe you should consider adding extra warning about it. Thank you. Steve
Hi,
As other users have already pointed out on the Mozilla review page, the addon is not usable anymore. The process of adding a new search engine involves the dropdown menu in the address bar — something that is missing from the latest instances of Firefox. I tried to follow some online suggestions to get that feature back into Firefox, by tweaking some about:config lines, but to no effect. It's a shame, because now adding custom search engines is parctcally impossible. Can we hope for an update of the addon that brings back functionality?
Cheers,
Steve