JFYI, there's no need to install anything. Focus on a search field on (almost any) website, open the context menu, and "Add a keyword for this search". Put a letter or two into the "keyword" input. Profit.
That article is only about OpenSearch addons from addons.mozilla.org. While I don't see a good reason to remove them, I also don't see a good reason to keep them.
The OpenSearch discovery feature is staying and I haven't heard of any efforts to remove it. Or am I missing something?
That article is about add-ons from AMO that use the OpenSearch provider API, but it mentions eventually deprecating OpenSearch from Firefox, too. It's been touched upon on HN in the past[1].
However, I was wrong about OpenSearch providing the functionality that the "Add keyword for this search" bookmark feature implements. That feature is completely independent from OpenSearch and isn't going anyway.
"Add keyword for this search" via bookmarks are not going anywhere in Firefox as far as I can tell. This was a false alarm on my part.
What the fuck.. Mozilla is really hell bent in this war on their own users aren't they?
Does this mean I'll have to install an extension to replace each search keyword I have? That would be dozens of extensions, many of them for obscure niche websites.
Take a look at my response to my original post, I was wrong about keyword searches via bookmarks being deprecated. OpenSearch doesn't provide that functionality.
That still means I have to set this all up for all the sites I want, which is a hassle.
The convenient thing about ddg is that it comes with a large number already setup out of the box.
I'd also like to know this. Been using Firefox mobile but chrome on PC and syncing custom search operators could be what gets me to switch back to FF on PC
I was thinking about OpenSearch custom search engines (being deprecated apparently as another comment notes, these appear on desktop as icons under the search input field "This time search with" and similarly in Android as icons above the on-screen keyboard. These definitely don't sync.
The other thing are bookmarks with the "keyword" property set. These do indeed sync, like other bookmarks.
