Custom Search Engine

To use, type 'ms' plus keyword for custom search engines & search term into the url bar. (e.g. ms google

What is Custom Search Engine?

Custom Search Engine is a Chrome extension developed by Ravi, and its main feature is "To use, type 'ms' plus keyword for custom search engines & search term into the url bar. (e.g. ms google

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Download Custom Search Engine Extension CRX File

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Extension Usage Instructions

# Description:
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This add-on allows users to define their own custom search engines and use it from address bar of the browser. You can save the custom engine details to a file and also load it from there. It allows easy sharing of custom defined engines too.

You now can also search using multiple search engines in one go. To use multi-search feature type "ms key1,key2,key3 ".

Summary of Features:
* Search using single search engine (use search key as 'key1')
* Search using multiple search engine (use search key as 'key1,key2')
* Search using single search category (use search key as '@cat1'
* Search using multiple search category (use search key as '@cat1,cat2')
* Search using all search engines (use search key as '@')
* Search using search engines with empty category (use search key as '@@')

New feature added to search based on search engine category. Search engine category should be defined in the preferences page.

To search based in category please type "ms @ ".

If you want to search using all search engines then simply use "ms @ ".

It allows users to use multiple search tags ("{searchTerms}" or "{searchTerms[0]" etc) to define a search engine url.

E.g. Following are a valid custom search engine urls -
* https://www.google.co.in/search?q={searchTerms}
To use above - "ms google convert CST time to PST"
* https://www.google.co.in/search?q=convert+{searchTerms[0]}+time+to+{searchTerms[1]}
To use above - "ms google CST PST"

Few other examples:
* ms @food,restaurant pasta
This will start search for text 'pasta' with search engines under category 'food' and also with search engines under category 'restaurant'.
* ms @ pasta
This will start search for text 'pasta' with all the search engines defined under preferences.
* ms @@ pasta
This will start search for text 'pasta' with all search engines with empty category.

# Add-on Preferences:
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Please follow below steps to update add-on preferences -

1. Go to "about:addons" from Firefox address bar
2. Click on "Preferences" for "Custom Search Engine" add-on.
3. Click on "Load Popular Search Engines". This will load few of the popular search engines details (e.g. duckduckgo, yahoo, google, bing).
4. Click on "Save Preferences"

Use above steps to also add your own custom engine details.

# Permissions Required:
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* storage - Save and load Preferences
* raw.githubusercontent.com - Load "popular search engines" from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rsins/ravi-firefox-custom-search-engines/master/SampleCustomEngines/PopularSearchEngines.txt

# Notes:
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If search engine key typed in address bar (after typing ms) points to single custom engine key then no need to type full key for custom search engine.

E.g. If "g" points to single custom engine lets say google then following will have same result-
ms google searchtext
ms g searchtext

Extension Basic Information

Name	Custom Search Engine
ID	kelahdmegihhooaelnaahkeggodajdjf
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/custom-search-engine/kelahdmegihhooaelnaahkeggodajdjf
Description	To use, type 'ms' plus keyword for custom search engines & search term into the url bar. (e.g. ms google ).
File Size	61.63 KB
Installation Count	5,000
Current Version	1.6
Last Updated	2020-12-31
Publish Date	2018-08-15
Rating	4.00/5 Total 9 Ratings
Developer	Ravi
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Supported Languages	en
manifest.json
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