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Add Search Engine button

Seems it's gone by now, and was really useful with search engines that use POST (within the request packets, and not the normal GET within URL) How can I see it or enable it back? If there's a way to...

(And also not related but yeah, how do I access the add-ons store? The button to access it has been removed from the add-ons ui apperantly, and uh, if I access it by the website itself, will it still works? Seems like firefox has been downgrading a lot with those updates, removing the add search engine button, the add-ons store button, etc)

Seems it's gone by now, and was really useful with search engines that use POST (within the request packets, and not the normal GET within URL) How can I see it or enable it back? If there's a way to... (And also not related but yeah, how do I access the add-ons store? The button to access it has been removed from the add-ons ui apperantly, and uh, if I access it by the website itself, will it still works? Seems like firefox has been downgrading a lot with those updates, removing the add search engine button, the add-ons store button, etc)

Chosen solution

Anyways, if anyone else is looking for a solution, the only way is downgrading to some old firefox version via some apk download website, I recommend using the version 68.11.0 it's the latest one that still contains the add search engine button function.

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Hi

If you select the menu and "Add-ons", you will see the list if Add-ons currently available in Firefox for Android.

You can add a search engine by selecting the menu, Settings and Search.

I hope that this helps.

Yeah, I saw, the add-ons have been moved, there is just a few now and all the others can't be tested, even downgrading the firefox version. About the add search engine, no no no, I'm saying the button, firefox used to have an automated button to add search engines, I downgraded it to version 69.11 on mobile and it's working now, although I'd liked to have this option on the newest versions but whatever. The thing is, I use a search engine that uses POST and it can't be (at least not easily, I think) add to the search engines menu via the options, (since I don't know the parameters, that aren't like normal search engines, as I said, it doesn't uses the URL as parameters for search, it uses the HTML request to send the search term) so the button really helped.

(screenshot showing the button present on the older firefox mobile versions on one of the searx public instances)

Chosen Solution

Anyways, if anyone else is looking for a solution, the only way is downgrading to some old firefox version via some apk download website, I recommend using the version 68.11.0 it's the latest one that still contains the add search engine button function.