So I've just installed a new OS and have therefore created a new Firefox profile from scratch. On the slow road to getting everything how I like it, today one of my missions has been sorting out my Firefox search engines. However, I've encountered a problem.
I tried to install a YouTube search from the Mycroft Project, only to receive the error message that it can't be installed because there's already a search engine by that name. "Manage Search Engines" reveals only the engines which appear on the drop-down menu on the search bar. Navigating to the search plug-in folder, however, reveals a YouTube search (along with a few other ones which don't show up and, strangely, some of the ones which are installed don't appear). I delete that and the problem persists.
Using "add search engine" while on YouTube yields the error message "Firefox could not download the search plugin from:
http://www.youtube.com/opensearch?locale=en_US"
Now, I can probably build my own YouTube search engine and call it something else, but it strikes me that there must be some easier way to install the engine that's already out there.
All the stuff I can find on the internet seems to be outdated from when the search engine was an .src file and the icon was separate in the folder, whereas now they seem to be .xml files and to contain the icon as part of the text. Mozilla themselves are no use, with the only solutions to similar problems on their site being the steps that I've already tried.
Any advice appreciated.
I tried to install a YouTube search from the Mycroft Project, only to receive the error message that it can't be installed because there's already a search engine by that name. "Manage Search Engines" reveals only the engines which appear on the drop-down menu on the search bar. Navigating to the search plug-in folder, however, reveals a YouTube search (along with a few other ones which don't show up and, strangely, some of the ones which are installed don't appear). I delete that and the problem persists.
Using "add search engine" while on YouTube yields the error message "Firefox could not download the search plugin from:
http://www.youtube.com/opensearch?locale=en_US"
Now, I can probably build my own YouTube search engine and call it something else, but it strikes me that there must be some easier way to install the engine that's already out there.
All the stuff I can find on the internet seems to be outdated from when the search engine was an .src file and the icon was separate in the folder, whereas now they seem to be .xml files and to contain the icon as part of the text. Mozilla themselves are no use, with the only solutions to similar problems on their site being the steps that I've already tried.
Any advice appreciated.
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