Google search

[gepus]

I'm thoroughly testing Pale Moon v.28 since I plan a definitive switch from Firefox 52 ESR to PM as my default browser.
Everything works great, extensions inclusive!
There is a single issue which I hope that can be solved with your help.
It's about Google search.
I'm not a fan of Google and avoid it as much as I can but sometimes I have to use their search.

How can I set Google search in Pale Moon for 100 results per site, and the language for displayed results so Google search performs as it does in my Firefox setup?

Thanks in advance!

[Tomaso]

This is not a browser setting.

@ Google.com:
'Settings' (down in the right corner of the page) > 'Search settings' > 'Results per page' > "100" > 'Save'

[gepus]

It's the search setting within the browser (search.json?).
I have 3 browsers at hand (Firefox 52.9.0 ESR, Opera Presto and K-Meleon) where I modified the search string within the browser. No meddling on Google's site.
So please, if you or someone else is willed or can give a useful hint, it would be much appreciated.

[Tomaso]

No really, this is NOT a browser setting!
Google is probably just up to their old tricks again, discriminating certain browsers.
You might be able to get around it, using a UA override, like the one posted by Sajadi here:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19044&p=147420#p147420
But you should pay attention to Moonchild's warning in the post below.

[gepus]

I didn't say that it's a browser setting.
I assume that's the search plugin (google.xml) within the browser/(search.json) that probably needs to be modified.
If it's doable in Firefox and other browsers it should be also doable in Pale Moon - at least I think so.

As for the link you gave - this has nothing to do with browser sniffing and UserAgents.

[Tomaso]

Yeah, adding &num=100 to the search string seems to do trick:
https://www.google.com/search?q=pale%20moon&num=100
..so it should be "fixable" in google.xml.

[Goodydino]

No really, this is NOT a browser setting!
Google is probably just up to their old tricks again, discriminating certain browsers.
You might be able to get around it, using a UA override, like the one posted by Sajadi here:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19044&p=147420#p147420
But you should pay attention to Moonchild's warning in the post below.

What post below? There is none there.
Google will not change the settings unless you let them set cookies. There used to be code that you could add to the URL to tell Google how many results per page to put, but they have ignored that for years now. Most likely that was to force visitors to let them set cookies.

[billmcct]

Google sets a cookie with your saved settings. I don't accept Google cookies myself.

[coffeebreak]

Adding this to a Google search plugin worked for me:

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<Param name="num" value="100"/>

[Tomaso]

What post below? There is none there.

The one below Sajadi's post (which I linked to directly).

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There used to be code that you could add to the URL to tell Google how many results per page to put, but they have ignored that for years now.

Try the link in my previous post.
That trick works!

[Tomaso]

Adding this to a Google search plugin worked for me:

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<Param name="num" value="100"/>

Confirmed!
But for it to work, I had to remove the edited XML file from the searchplugins folder, restart Pale Moon once without it, then put the XML file back into place, and restart Pale Moon once more!

[gepus]

Adding this to a Google search plugin worked for me:

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<Param name="num" value="100"/>

Muchas gracias Sir!

Any hint how to set the preferred language (en-us)?

[coffeebreak]

Any hint how to set the preferred language (en-us)?

Just a guess, adapting from the parameter in my search url (since I only ever see Google search in English), try this:

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<Param name="hl" value="en"/>

[gepus]

Thanks a lot!!!
In the meanwhile I managed to solve the preferred language too.

In PM v28 it looks like this:

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..."utf-8"},{"name":"num","value":"100"},{"name":"hl","value":"en"}]}]