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Looks like Mozilla may also be planning to kill the search bar. With this change, how can anything be added to the search bar itself?

As usual, Mozilla just follows Google lead rather than innovating browser features anymore.

How does mandated signed addons get you "offers users more controls for opting into changes"? They offer me less controls, as someone else (AMO) controls what I may opt into.



Search engines will be added by regular extensions. It says this in the second paragraph and links to code examples for how to do it.


How is it desirable or even acceptable to deteriorate user and developer experience like this?

Firefox will require users to install an extension in order to add search engines instead of just visiting websites.

And developers will have to create extensions that barely anyone knows about let alone bother to install.

Much worse than today's solution of including a little code in your website and have users autodiscover your search engine:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="a9...spec"> <ShortName>Website Title</ShortName> <Description>Search my website</Description> <Url type="application/rss+xml" template="mysite.com/search?q={searchTerms}"/> </OpenSearchDescription>


Yeah, probably. I'm just answering the first two sentences of the post I was replying to.




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