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Adding Perplexity.ai as default search engine

lakornell
lakornell

Hello, I would like to add the Perplexity.ai search engine as my default search. Is there a way to do that? I don't see it listed on the search engine pull-down menu. Thanks.

Hello, I would like to add the Perplexity.ai search engine as my default search. Is there a way to do that? I don't see it listed on the search engine pull-down menu. Thanks.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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They do accept searches via the address bar -- for example,

https://www.perplexity.ai/search?s=o&q=tabs+in+sidebar+in+Firefox?

-- but I don't see an official way to add it because there is a glitch with their OpenSearch.xml file

https://www.perplexity.ai/opensearch.xml (Ctrl+U to view source)

So... what is the best workaround? Some options:

(1) Install an add-on that adds the search engine definition to Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/perplexity-omnibox/

(2) Use a keyboard keyword bookmark (I don't see the advantage in this case; How to search IMDB, Wikipedia and more from the address bar)

(3) Enable the manual search engine URL feature (I don't see the advantage in this case; it involves the undocumented "browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh" preference)

Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer