Customizable search engines
-
Please add the opportunity to delete defaults and add own like https://forvo.com/word/%s
-
I also would like to see customizable search engines. That would be a powerful tool. Please do that instead of the integration of games (Vivaldia). It works in the desktop browser very well and I love. Especially by use of search tags. That would be perfect!
-
-
@brainc0re Who knows whether it is hard or not? You are waiting for a whole month (a month!) for a single option no one else has asked for, while there are over 4,000 feature requests, and some are over 6 years old.
Patience is key.
-
@ayespy wait a minute. the first post for this feature was at 10 Sept 2019! That almost 2 years....
A Dev told me, via google play store review to post this request here. I got his answer at 17.11.2020
-
@brainc0re And my "simple" feature request for vertical bookmarks bar is over six years old. Your point? A MONTH is too fast to be worrying about the age of a feature request. So, actually, is a year, two years, or three years. Requests are not measured by age, but rather by popularity, ease of implementation, personnel availability, importance, and compatibility with pre-existing goals of management and the team. You simply can't say there is something wrong because a feature request is (this many days, weeks, years) old. I appreciate you were advised to check on it here, and the current status is that it is not in the pipeline at this moment.
Volunteer Mod and tester on Windows 11 Home X64, i7-13700 @ 5.4 GHz turbo; Intel UHD 770 graphics; 1TB NV2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD; 32 GB DDR4-3200 RAM. Community Code of Conduct
-
@ayespy said in Customizable search engines:
[...] and the current status is that it is not in the pipeline at this moment.
This thread appears to be in the "pipeline" tag, is this an error?
-
@0x5c That looks right. That said, I've heard nothing about it backstage at all. Of course "pipeline" basically only means its on the developers' radar. It's not a signal that it is at some given point of development, or for that matter, even started.
Still the mobile devs do seem to want to level up mobile with desktop as much as possible so, for all I know, it might even be on some dev's whiteboard.
-
this is a necessary basic function for a web browser
unlike some panels with bookmarks
-
@skosyrsky
Hi, it is in the pipeline of the developers, vote for the request.https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/40148/customizable-search-engines
Cheers, mib
-
I'm totally for this but, as a very simple stopgap solution, you could add a few more entries to the built-in list, like Brave Search and Qwant.
-
We need this functionality on Android. I would like to use the Qwant search engine by default, but the android version of Vivaldi does not allow me to do it. It's a weak point for Vivaldi.
-
@fall66 said in Customizable search engines:
We need this functionality on Android. I would like to use the Qwant search engine by default, but the android version of Vivaldi does not allow me to do it. It's a weak point for Vivaldi.
The title of this topic says "Pipeline", which means that the developers of Vivaldi have this on their To Du list, but when this feature will appear is not yet certain.
-
sounds like a good idea
-
Yes customizable search engines would be great. like we search something on the search engine and it automatically enables that search engine in the search engine list.
-
@jcprevel me too
-
+1
This isn't just about esotheric search engines, even just setting parameters & using the localized version of, say, Google requires this (i.e., local domain vs .com). Product/shopping searches on .com are useless if you're not in the US&A...
-
We need this
-
@tiritibambix @stardepp said in Customizable search engines:
@fall66 said in Customizable search engines:
We need this functionality on Android. I would like to use the Qwant search engine by default, but the android version of Vivaldi does not allow me to do it. It's a weak point for Vivaldi.
The title of this topic says "Pipeline", which means that the developers of Vivaldi have this on their To Du list, but when this feature will appear is not yet certain.
🍀 Before you ask, use Vivaldi Help (F1🍀Search Engine Collection🍀My Themes🍀Windows11 24H2🍀Motorola Edge 50 Ultra Android 15🍀
-
@stardepp That tag isn't on this thread anymore. It's been two full years. More to the point, the sudden inability to change search engines was one of the biggest things that pushed folks away from Opera to Vivaldi and that Vivaldi specifically celebrated as bringing back early on the desktop. Its lack of presence on Android and the complete lack of feedback is feeling more and more like a red flag w/r/t whether or not the Vivaldi folks are actually committed to the mission they started out on.
Hell, just the ability to ADD a new search engine would be a major change. Syncing is just a nice bonus. But being forced into only curated selections is really, really Not Okay. And that was precisely the kind of Not Okay that killed loyalty to Opera. That's why I'm particularly worried here. It would arguably be better to have no search engine integration at all.
