Import Search Engines

[hartontw]

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Description

Hello, congrats for your useful addon.

I'm wondering if is possible to import native Firefox search engines into addon preferences.

{
  "search": {
    "default": "g",
    "engines": {
      "g": "https://google.com/search?q={}",
      "duck": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={}",
      "br": "https://search.brave.com/search?q={}",
      "xng": "https://searx.tiekoetter.com/search?q={}",
      "yt": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query={}"
    }
  }
}

I did some research and that info is in the file search.json.mozlz4 of the user config directory.

That file can be decompress to json with some script like this
Remove or Comment line 30: Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/osfile.jsm");

Once decompressed looks like this:

{
    "version": 9,
    "engines": [
        {
            "id": "[email protected]",
            "_name": "Google",
            "_isAppProvided": true,
            "_metaData": {
                "order": 1,
                "alias": ".g",
                "hideOneOffButton": false
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "[email protected]",
            "_name": "Wikipedia (en)",
            "_isAppProvided": true,
            "_metaData": {
                "hideOneOffButton": false
            }
        },
        ...
    ],
    "metaData": {
        ...
    }
}

If I have some time I will try to do it myself and make a pull request (if is possible and you are agree), if not I will just simply create an exportation script and post it here.

I mainly created this request to propose the idea and as a self reminder.

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