Chromium no default search engine set about browser_extensions

[vprelovac]

@gauntface Thanks for the heads up. As a note, all documentation is open source and editing is as easy as clicking the Edit link on the bottom of the page.

[gauntface]

@vprelovac ah thank you - ❤️ that. PR coming soon.

[z64]

Hi all - we took a quick look into this, it seems that with Chromium on Linux, it no longer works; it seems to have broken since we launched the extension. It is not clear whether this is a regression or intentional change in Chromium.

It still works on Chrome on Windows.

Other extensions (e.g. DDG's) also appear to have broken for this use case.

cc @BrunoBernardino @hmnd

[vprelovac]

Does it work on a Chrome browser for you?

[fspv]

Same here, no default search engine set whatsoever. Linux, Chromium 109.0.5414.119 snap

[vprelovac]

You can check instrucitons from Kagi docs to set it manually

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.html

[BrunoBernardino]

Chrome doesn't support it yet, though the code will enable it once it does.

[gauntface]

It might be worth updating the documentation here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.html#browser_extension

The extension sets Kagi as the default search engine and allows ...

I see now that the docs later link to the manual setup under chromium, but it would be good to rephrase the initial paragraph to something like:

The extension sets Kagi ad the default search engine in many browsers/platforms and allows ...

That nudges folks to read further.

[BrunoBernardino]

Interesting. Indeed it looks like a regression on their end, given https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/settings_override/ . Can someone test this on macOs?

[Vermyndax]

Actually, I misspoke. In the latest version of Arc (1.21.2) the Kagi extension does successfully set the default search engine. It messes up the Arc UI a little bit, as it shows a blank entry in the dropdown for the default search engine. However, it does seem to work. The manual configuration as per the docs does not work.

[yammesicka]

Yup, on Linux using Chromium, the extension fails to change the default search engine to Kagi.
Additionally, manual configuration of the search engine does not enable autosuggestions.
Solved it by closing Chromium and manually editing ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences, adding "suggestions_url":"https://kagi.com/api/autosuggest?q={searchTerms}" to the kagi search provider.

[ivan-toriya]

@yammesicka thanks for this tip! I think that should be added to Kagi docs and/or handled by the extension in the future.

[coccigelus]

it fails in windows too now using brave browser. No idea what to do.

[hughobrien]

Hi @coccigelus can you please give us some details of your system? I wasn't able to reproduce: