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How to install again Google Search in Pale Moon 26.4.0+

Posted: 2016-08-18, 01:21
by lyceus
Hello everybody:

This is the tutorial for help Joe User for install back Google Search to the search bar in Pale Moon 26.4.0 - I won't debate why the change or the impact of this in your everyday life, ok? So, you just are 6 clicks away to get things done and for good, :mrgreen: are you ready?

You update to Pale Moon 26.4.0 and you see that Google Search is gone but now only DuckDuckGo, Bing and Yahoo! are installed, the horror! :o
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Don't get in panic. Let's count to 6 and you are done.

1. Click the left menu on the search bar and look for Manage serach engines (count click is 2 now)
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2. A window will show you the current search engines installed please use your click #3 on Get more search engines
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3. You will see the page of the search engines of Pale Moon. The click #4 is for select Google:
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4 & 5. A window will ask you if you want to add Google to your search engines, but don't go too speedy! Use the click #5 in Make this the current search engine and the #6 in the ADD button.
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YUppiee! Google is back and since this is an extension that you installed in your user profile it won't go again in new updates.
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Ouch! These 6 clicks had made be too tired... I need a coffee now... :coffee: :mrgreen:

Greetings,
Lyceus

Re: How to install again Google Search in Pale Moon 26.4.0+

Posted: 2016-08-18, 03:05
by radwolf76
Step #2 gives me a different window, but I was able to find "Get More Search Engines..." under the file menu in that window.

However, when I get to the page shown in step #4, clicking the links does nothing for me. Went to the page source, and I see that there's a window.external.AddSearchProvider('https://addons.palemoon.org/phoebus/ser ... php?id=100') that's supposed to happen OnClick, and apparently for some reason isn't. And this is where I get stuck.

Re: How to install again Google Search in Pale Moon 26.4.0+

Posted: 2016-08-18, 08:39
by Moonchild
I already explained this in a howto post :/
I even linked to it from the release notes.

Re: How to install again Google Search in Pale Moon 26.4.0+

Posted: 2016-08-18, 14:40
by rabnbeinn
No probs here putting google back using Moonchilds/Lobocursor way. Easy and took about 5 secs if that.

Re: How to install again Google Search in Pale Moon 26.4.0+

Posted: 2016-08-18, 21:45
by lyceus
Moonchild wrote:I already explained this in a howto post :/
I even linked to it from the release notes.

This is the Spanish topic of the subject translated to English, I just though it would be useful for average Joes. :D As several people did complain in FB like this was an impossible task. I still have pending the android one, so if you have one already I will keep mine on Spanish only.

Re: How to install again Google Search in Pale Moon 26.4.0+

Posted: 2016-08-18, 21:52
by lyceus
radwolf76 wrote: However, when I get to the page shown in step #4, clicking the links does nothing for me. Went to the page source, and I see that there's a window.external.AddSearchProvider('https://addons.palemoon.org/phoebus/ser ... php?id=100') that's supposed to happen OnClick, and apparently for some reason isn't. And this is where I get stuck.
Please go here and try add Google: https://addons.palemoon.org/more/search-plugins/