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Hello all, I have an unconventional idea. Is it possible for the default search engine in Firefox to be randomized at each search?

I was a happy DuckDuckGo user for many years, but the quality of results degraded significantly in 2022. Not sure what is goşng on, but I'm in the market for a new default search engine. I'm trying out Brave, Ecosia, SearX and a bunch of others. It would be really cool if my default search engine was randomly selected from this pool every time, so that I get to experience different ones before eventually settling for one of them.

Do you think this could be done? (for example as an extention)

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[–] zksmk@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

< Is it possible for the default search engine in Firefox to be randomized at each search

I've been wanting this exact thing for quite some time, and would love it if Firefox could do this natively.

There's an add-on, but you have to lead your searches with a custom word all the time.