Allow Firefox to use a WebExtension page as search engine

Hi,

I’m the developper of the Meta-Press.es addon:

It’s a simple meta-search engine fitted in a WebExtension. It allows to search through one thousand newspapers in the world, directly from the user’s browser, turning its computer into a decentralized search engine, with no ad, no tracking and only human-validated news sources.

So it’s an addon that directly provides a search engine feature, it is not redirecting to a third party online service.

I would like to list Meta-Press.es between DuckDuckGo and Wikipedia’s search engines that Firefox proposes. It would require to add the ‘moz-extension://’ pseudo-protocol to the accepted URLs when adding a new search engine. Currently it’s not the case and I’m stopped with the following message:

« That URL doesn’t look right. Use a URL that starts with http or https. »

While a URL like:

moz-extension:///html/index.html?q=%s&tech=one+word&tech=cherry-pick_sources&lang=fr&add_src_sel=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acrimed.org&submit=1

Would else allow to perform a search (here it’s a search in a single source to start with something).

Any hint about how, where and to whom present this idea would be welcome. I can dedicate office hours in video meetings to support it.

With regard,

Looks like bug 1900568 covers this request. While that bug currently only covers Android, I observed the same behavior in desktop versions of Firefox.

If you have an account on Mozilla issue tracker, you may want to add yourself to the CC list on that issue so you receive email updates in the future.

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