Customizable search engines

tonaliz872

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nicholasrupert

Hello, is this expected to be added to the iOS app soon?

Ayespy

@nicholasrupert No projection has been offered. On the whole, Vivaldi never provides ETAs or says what features will come when.

nicholasrupert

Dang, I guess I'll stick with a different mobile browser for now then

Ayespy

@nicholasrupert If you customize your browsers on desktop, and sycn with iOS, my understanding is that the browser customization gets synced. I may have understood that wrong, but I think that's what happens.

Ayespy

@nicholasrupert I just checked my search engines on my Android version, and it's the same search engines (including, for instance, dogpile) as on my desktop.

Viqsi

@Ayespy said in Customizable search engines:

@nicholasrupert If you customize your browsers on desktop, and sycn with iOS, my understanding is that the browser customization gets synced. I may have understood that wrong, but I think that's what happens.

Can confirm that this also works on iOS.

nicholasrupert

Interesting. I have an account and synced, but it’s still using Bing.

Ayespy

@nicholasrupert What does your desktop use?

nicholasrupert

It uses Kagi

Ayespy

@nicholasrupert
And is Kagi listed among your iOS search engines in the browser?

nicholasrupert

Kagi is not listed on the iOS version, no. Maybe because I had to add it manually on the desktop one?

Ayespy

It is not a conventionally available search engine. You have to make special provisions to install it at all, and it's a pay-for search as well. Chromium has excluded some of the old ways this engine used to install and, I suspect it doesn't even function like a search link in a browser at all. So this may have something to do with the trouble you are having. Does the Orion browser have an iOS version? If no, what browser(s) does Kagi even work in on iOS?

Viqsi

I seriously doubt whether or not a search engine is "conventional" has anything to do with it. My default search engine URI is located at "http://localhost:1123" because I have a custom Javascript hack I've been carrying around for years for custom search prefixes (https://github.com/Viqsi/local-search-prefixes if you're overly curious) and that synced to my iPad just fine. (And works, mostly because of some ad-hackery with iSH; I need to update the Readme in that repo to describe it...)

Ayespy

@Viqsi Read here. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.html It will explain my doubts.

Viqsi

@Ayespy The "manual configuration" part of that page makes it look fairly straightforward to me - it's just yet another URL (https://kagi.com/search?q=%s). I mean, yeah, they recommend an extension, but that seems to be mostly for the benefit of a non-tech-savvy user audience; it doesn't look to me like it's required; all the extra considerations therein seem to be mostly about making sure you have a login session cookie for them to pick up in the request (hardly unusual). And the user did say that they used a "manual configuration" process to add it to Vivaldi. So presumably it ought to work.

Is it possible that that user just configured Sync to not sync everything and so search engines got inadvertently excluded? I know there's a "not Everything" option, but I've never tried that (I sync ALL THE THINGS) and so don't know if that's something that can be left out.

nicholasrupert

It works fine on desktop, it just doesn’t sync to ios.

e: Sync is set to sync everything.

nicholasrupert

Ah I didn’t actually click “start syncing” on the desktop. It works now!

Viqsi

@nicholasrupert Awesome! Glad y'all got that settled.

Ayespy

@nicholasrupert Yay!