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> Both Firefox and Chrome support a common format for defining search engines from add-ons

...which have nothing to do with the Open Web, mentioned in the parent reply. Both require participating in, and consequently adhering to the terms of, stores operated by third parties.



> ..which have nothing to do with the Open Web,

Which, in turn, has nothing to do with the origin article. Read it again, it is only about how search engines are defined inside add-ons.


Per the article, "Mozilla intends to deprecate OpenSearch and eventually remove it from Firefox".




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