I Built a Browser Extension with a Younger Girl

Nexmoe August 30, 2021
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She had just finished the college entrance exam, and one day she asked if I knew how to write a browser extension. I had just made one myself and hadn’t finished it yet, and I wasn’t very familiar with extension development. But she asked for help, so I helped. In the end, the two of us tinkered for a while and completed this extension.

If you use this feature, feel free to participate in the open source project and add the search engines you need 💖

Project Meaning

  • Prevent some sites from removing OpenSearch just to chase more traffic (e.g., Bilibili)
  • Add OpenSearch for sites that don’t have it
  • Save you from manually adding it yourself

GitHub: https://github.com/lcandy2/oSearch/ Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pejlgjjlbhpbfiiaegahmeahlhbpkglo Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/osearch Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/fdekeghfifiibfopfnamhegkhhdpdmlo

Features

Add OpenSearch to sites in the list so the browser can add them as search engines. After adding, type the site address in the address bar, then press Space or Tab to search quickly. In Firefox, you need to manually click the site icon with a plus sign to add it to search engines.

oSearch helps you search wikipedia.org via OpenSearch

oSearch helps in adding search engines

Usage

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