Customizable search engines

Phosphoros

Need to add Qwant to default search engines for mobile app

Hadden89

@Phosphoros As default probably won't happen as there isn't more a parternship with vivaldi.
But yeah, I'd like to add it

drannex42

+1 to this request, huge feature gap by not having it.

Dancer18

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.

drannex42

@Dancer18 yes, for desktop this works really well. But we are talking about the mobile version!

Dancer18

Oh, I missed that really! Sorry!
And yes - I'm interested in this feature too!!!

alvk

Need... a custom... search... engine... feature.... Been... waiting... since... day... one...

ryonez

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/src

I'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.

Ayespy

@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.

ryonez

@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.

twoksdev

@pgilbert681 I hadn't thought about using this for web site shortcuts on Vivaldi Mobile, but it would be handy. The Android version really needs the ability to manually add search engines.

twoksdev

@jcprevel that is needed badly. While I like to use default services as much as I can to support Vivaldi, I find that even DuckDuckGo and Start Page censor certain results or push them lower in the list of responses. Gigablast, MetGer and Qwant seem to give me the best results and I would really like to add them to Vivaldi Mobile.

FabulousMythicalBird

Please add the opportunity to delete defaults and add own like https://forvo.com/word/%s

Epyonp90

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

I'm waiting for a custom search (google.ch or google.de) since month. My phone use EN language but I prefer a German search engine.

But without this, Vivaldi is useless for me.

I cant believe that this cant be so hard to implement....

Ayespy

@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.

Brainc0re

@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

Ayespy

@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.

0x5c

@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?

Ayespy

@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.