Is it possible to set the default search engine via config?

[NonlinearFruit]

It seems this used to be in the about config but no longer. I've seen speculation that you could do it programmatically. With glide, is it possible to set the default search engine without right clicking search boxes, adding it, etc?

• Here is a manifest.json from an extension that added a custom search engine (github).
• The mozilla docs for chrome_settings_override (mozilla).
• Glide has (await browser.runtime.getManifest()).chrome_settings_overrides.

Maybe the more broad question is 'Is it possible to set manifest values via config?'

[RobertCraigie]

It looks like you can set the default search engine with the browser.urlbar.placeholderName pref, e.g. duck duck go is

glide.pref.set('browser.urlbar.placeholderName', 'DuckDuckGo')

So if you want to use a search engine that is already defined or defined by an extension, that should work.

Maybe the more broad question is 'Is it possible to set manifest values via config?'

Unfortunately you cannot customise the manifest.json for the builtin extension that the browser API uses yet. I looked into this briefly before but it seems like it'd be tricky.

[NonlinearFruit]

So if you want to use a search engine that is already defined or defined by an extension, that should work.

Using an extension is fair. We can do that from config (which is great!).

[RobertCraigie]

Filed a separate discussion for the manifest.json part! #134

[NonlinearFruit]

In 0.1.57a this is possible! This is what I needed to have the default search be Brave.

glide.search_engines.add({
  name: "Brave",
  keyword: "b",
  search_url: "https://search.brave.com/search?q={searchTerms}",
  is_default: true
})