Export custom search engines to Floorp (Firefox)

[kanishknishar]

I have a few dozen custom search engines that I added that I want to export to Firefox. What's the easiest way to achieve this?

[mib2berlin]

@kanishknishar
Hi, we don't help you to change to Firefox, it's crap anyway with 20000 open bugs.
We had a custom modification to export all search engines in the mod forum section:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/category/52/modifications
You can search in the section, if I find it I will edit here.

Cheers, mib

[mib2berlin]

@kanishknishar
No idea if it still work in Vivaldi 7.0, you get a .json file to import it in another Vivaldi install.
But this will never work in Firefox, it's not as customizable as Vivaldi.
Maybe another user have an idea.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/82460/guide-search-engines-edit-bckp

[Hadden89]

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[luetage]

@kanishknishar I don’t think Firefox has a way to import search engines, therefore it cannot be done. To export your Vivaldi search engines to a json file, first open developer tools for the user interface:

• open startpage (new tab)
• open quick commands (F2)
• type developer tools and hit enter

Then open console and run following code:

vivaldi.searchEngines.getTemplateUrls((engines) => {
  console.info(JSON.stringify(engines, null, 2));
});

Copy the output and paste it into a new json file.

[kosmonaut]

@luetage
This didn't work for me. (using V 6.9.3447.54 in W10 machine)


[luetage]

@kosmonaut You need to open the developer tools for the UI, see ☛ https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/135732

[kosmonaut]

@luetage Thanks for answering but this simply isn't workable for normal human beings.

14 steps involving incantations and mystic rituals to be able to reach a "developer" console page that doesn't allow pasted text?

Some vivaldi "developer" actually got paid to do this?

Sturgeon's Law strikes again.

[luetage]

@kosmonaut It’s 3 steps, as outlined in https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/803146. Following these instructions already opens the developer tools for the UI. Why you didn’t manage to paste there, I can’t tell. In any case, the developer tools come directly from Chromium. No one forces you to do any of this, it isn’t particularly useful to a user.