Customizable search engines
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Kagi is not listed on the iOS version, no. Maybe because I had to add it manually on the desktop one?
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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?
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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...)
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@Viqsi Read here. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.html It will explain my doubts.
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@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.
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It works fine on desktop, it just doesn’t sync to ios.
e: Sync is set to sync everything.
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Ah I didn’t actually click “start syncing” on the desktop. It works now!
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@nicholasrupert Awesome! Glad y'all got that settled.
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@nicholasrupert Yay!
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Having to sync with desktop is a kludge. As Bing fell over today, taking with it DuckDuckGo, Qwant etc etc, I decided give Mojeek a try. Why should it be so difficult?
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@jcprevel
still +1 to this even though its been 4 years already
I need to be able to set custom engines in the android app itself.
Sync is unusable .. sure, it sync.. but if the browser isnt allowed to use a custom engine, it doesnt work on a lot of phones.
My pixel 9 simply crashes when I go to the search engine setting due to the fact that it cant handle the custom engine synced from desktop... (And it still grabs the default search engine)
This really needs to be looked at -
+1 from me too. It would like to use startpage.
Also I think the user base of Vivaldi is quite keen on privacy, tracking and customization so adding custom search engines seems like a no-brainer to me.