Customizable search engines
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It is a feature that Opera 12 had, at least after a fashion. When I installed Opera Mobile and enabled Sync, it synced the search engines I had on my desktop to my tablet. So it should be something they have want in V.
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@shmykelsa Yes, please! It would be great to sync Search Engines across desktop and mobile browsers.
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Sync & customizable search engines for desktop and mobile would be wonderful.
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@mvozzo @StephZarx if you want to give your support to feature requests, you have to upvote the OP. It's just not possible to sift through all the threads and count up the number of folks who express support for one feature or another, so the way to have your support counted is to upvote the OP.
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Is this being looked at, and if so any idea on the timeline?
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@ryonez It's tagged as In Progress, so it's certainly being looked at. However, there are never any ETAs.
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@Komposten said in Customizable search engines:
@ryonez It's tagged as In Progress, so it's certainly being looked at. However, there are never any ETAs.
What are ETAs?
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@stardepp Estimated Time to Arrival - Vivaldi doesn't provide estimates for when things will be released.
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Better to synchronize search engines with Desktop
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only feature preventing me from switching to using Vivaldi on Android
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Need to add Qwant to default search engines for mobile app
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@Phosphoros As default probably won't happen as there isn't more a parternship with vivaldi.
But yeah, I'd like to add it
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+1 to this request, huge feature gap by not having it.
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It is POSSIBLE to add ANY other search engine to vivaldi search.
Maybe I missed another description about the feature in this thread, but anyway:Whereever you open a site with a searchbar: Qwant, amazon, or any other, rightclick in the searchbar and select "Create search".
A small window pops up for some editings and you just save it.I did this even for searching of books by title or by ISBN-number with this portal and of movies with this.
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@Dancer18 yes, for desktop this works really well. But we are talking about the mobile version!
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Oh, I missed that really! Sorry!
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Need... a custom... search... engine... feature.... Been... waiting... since... day... one...
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Looking back in after 6 months, seems this still isn't around.
I get adding features to code is hard, but for a browser aimed for power users in mind, not having a way to use our own search engines seems like a let down.Would seeing how kiwi browser does it help? Here's the source code for the android browser:
https://github.com/kiwibrowser/srcI'm certainly don't have the skills to understand this, but I'm not saying the devs here don't either. I'm only pointing it out in hopes it might give some pointers or ideas that could lead to this being implemented sooner.
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@ryonez There are literally thousands of feature requests. To each person who has submitted one, it's the most important one and the thing developers should be focusing on. In fact, new features take months and even years, and the one I have wanted the most (ability to have a vertical bookmarks bar) is still not there more than six years after I asked for it. So my suggestion is, don't count the days since a feature was requested. There's pretty much no point. The developers know which ones the team has had in mind since before the beginning and aren't done yet, and also know which requests have the most upvotes. Time is on our side.
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@Ayespy Fair enough, there are plenty of other things people are asking for all up. It's just very frustrating for me as this is a blocker for completely using this browser on android. Every since Firefox's big changes I've not be able to find one that is right for me, and this is the closest one.
On desktop I use a mix of Firefox and Vivaldi, and the upcoming Proton changes might be enough to switch me to using Vivaldi as the main as I've really liked it over the last couple of years. Still one or two things that are irritating at times, but it's a really enjoyable browser.
