Firefox now allows you to add custom search engine manually by default

4 months ago 19

Closed Bug 1967739 Opened 10 days ago Closed 10 days ago

Tracking Status
relnote-firefox --- ?
firefox140 --- verified
firefox141 --- verified

Assignee: nobody → mbeier

Status: NEW → ASSIGNED

Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED

Closed: 10 days ago

Resolution: --- → FIXED

Target Milestone: --- → 140 Branch

Trying to see what is enabled by default here.

:mbeier, is this now user facing? If yes, could you consider nominating this for a release note? (Process info)

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: Useful new feature
[Affects Firefox for Android]: No
[Suggested wording]: Firefox now supports adding your own custom search engines. Just right-click a search field of a supported website and select Add Search Engine, or go to Settings > Search > Add (below the search shortcuts table) to manually enter a search URL.
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: We will add a SUMO article before the release.

Thanks, added to the Fx140 nightly release notes, please allow 30 minutes for the site to update.
Keeping the relnote-firefox flag as ? to keep it on the radar for inclusion in the final Fx140 release notes.

QA Whiteboard: [qa-triage-done-c141/b140][qa-ver-needed-c141/b140]

Flags: qe-verify+

I was able to verify that pref is not true on Win11 using Firefox builds: 137.0 and 138.0.3.
Verified that pref is set to true on Win11/Ubuntu24.04 using Firefox builds 140.0b2 and 141.0a1.

Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED

QA Whiteboard: [qa-triage-done-c141/b140][qa-ver-needed-c141/b140] → [qa-triage-done-c141/b140][qa-ver-done-c141/b140]

Flags: qe-verify+

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