Organize Search Engines now for Pale Moon!

[gracious1]

Baton34 recently updated Organize Search Engines to add Pale Moon support.
You can download version 1.96.02 from Github:
The latest release always is here.
(N.B. If you are currently using 1.95.2 or earlier, you should remove your existing installation before installing this new release.)

I use this myself, and it's an excellent extension for someone who has a lot of search plug-ins.
(You can find all sorts at the Mycroft Project.)

Maybe we can convince the developer to host at Pale Moon Add-ons Site, too?

[billmcct]

Thank you gracious1,
I've been using v1.7 forever now since I have about 300 search engines. Apparently he has changed the ID number or something since it didn't replace the 1.7, it installed separately, though it picked up all the settings. Cool though.

Bill

[Trapper]

Thanks for the heads upgracious1, and thanks for your efforts to get this extension supported again.

Organize Search Engines is indispensable to me... I've been using v1.7 since forever.

[billmcct]

Had to revert this back to V1.7. Lost the Paste & Search function in the search box.

Bill

Edit; just tried the "Organize Search Engines 1.95.2" version and the Paste & Search function is unusable also.

[gracious1]

Had to revert this back to V1.7. Lost the Paste & Search function in the search box.
Edit; just tried the "Organize Search Engines 1.95.2" version and the Paste & Search function is unusable also.

You might have an extension conflict going on. I am using version 1.96.02 in PM 27.7.0a2 x86_64 (2018-01-05), and I see "Paste & Search" in the context menu (right-click in the Search Bar). Do you know how to create another profile? See if it works in a clean profile.

Also, I am not sure if you saw this in my original post:

(N.B. If you are currently using 1.95.2 or earlier, you should remove your existing installation before installing this new release.)

g.

[billmcct]

No, I have the option in both of the newer versions I tried but they wont allow me to paste and search. I can paste and then search but that defeats the purpose of the "paste & search" option. Yes I disabled all other add-ons that affect the search box with no luck. I will try in a new profile tomorrow though I just built this one two weeks ago because of a problem with uBlockO, something in the prefs.js was corrupted.

Bill

[gracious1]

No, I have the option in both of the newer versions I tried but they wont allow me to paste and search. I can paste and then search but that defeats the purpose of the "paste & search" option. Yes I disabled all other add-ons that affect the search box with no luck. I will try in a new profile tomorrow though I just built this one two weeks ago because of a problem with uBlockO, something in the prefs.js was corrupted.

Bill

It doesn't work for me, either — even in a clean profile. I'll report this to the developer.

[billmcct]

baton34 has promptly fixed this issue.

https://github.com/Baton34/organize-sea ... s/releases

Bill

[andres99]

Thanks for making this extension available in Pale Moon!

It seems that for this moment, in 1.96.03, I cannot drag&drop to change the order of search engines. And in the Properties window it seems to me that the OK button does not work, so that I cannot make any manual changes to the search string.

[Goodydino]

If you choose Manage Search Engines from the search bar menu, you can choose something and then move it up or down.

[back2themoon]

Can you tell me if this extension has an export/import feature that maintains the search engine order when restored? Thanks.

[andres99]

If you choose Manage Search Engines from the search bar menu, you can choose something and then move it up or down.

That is the problem: it does not work there. I can change the order by moving the search engines by the buttons (Move Up or Move Down) but I cannot drag and drop there. And in editing the individual search engines, the OK button does nothing. Other functionality works.

Can you tell me if this extension has an export/import feature that maintains the search engine order when restored? Thanks.

I cannot see Import or Export in the menus of the Manage Search Engines window.

I am using New Moon version 28.2.0a1 (32-bit) on Windows XP SP3 and Organize Search Engines v 1.96.03-fx

[andres99]

The Enter/OK problem has been fixed as from version 1.96.04.

The Drag and Drop problem appears to be due to a decision taken by the developers of Pale Moon, and the developer of the addon has mentioned that he cannot do anything about it.

https://github.com/Baton34/organize-search-engines/issues/117#issuecomment-414037287

[firefoxed]

OMG… This is a dream!!!



I have wanted to be able to edit search engines for soooo long.
Thank you for mentioning that amazing add-on.


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Related to the theme of organizing search engines, out of curiosity, has anyone understood how to get the XML Search Engines Exporter/Importer add-on to work in Pale Moon?
(it's caa:addon/search-engines-export-import when the Classic Add-On Archive extension is installed)

No worries if no one replies, as the add-on mentioned above does an amazing job.
The reason I'm curious is that the add-on page says that "features are accessible from the Search pane of the Preferences page in Firefox", but I can't find that page in PM Prefs.

[gepus]

... has anyone understood how to get the XML Search Engines Exporter/Importer add-on to work in Pale Moon?

The XML Search Engines are located in the searchplugin folder. That's a subfolder of your Profiles/Default folder.
From here you can copy paste aka import/export the files wherever you want.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Not all profiles are Default.blah465gg3567 and not all profiles are in appdata. So to be universal, searchplugin directory in your profile directory.

For instance, I keep my main profile on a different drive and the one in appdata with Default.tthjy5563gtf or whatever is my pseudo-clean one for testing

I use my Profile Switcher extension easily to switch between them

The Search pane in Preferences is an Australis thing that was done with their in-content preferences (about:preferences) and search feature fuck up.. I mean refresh.. This is how it works in Basilisk. Pale Moon's UI is the Search Engine Manager accessable from the dropdown when you click on the search bar favicon under Manage search engines.

Unlike Basilisk or the storage format of the day for Firefox, Pale Moon (and when released, my Navigator) doesn't lock up your search plugins in a barely accessable format. You just need to drop xml files into the profile while the browser is closed and next start they will be picked up. Same for backing up and restoring. Though, perhaps you should be backing up your profile on a regular basis anyway.

So you don't actually need an extension to specifically do this with Pale Moon.

[jars_]

hmm... same PERFORMANCE(Deprecation) Warring like in "original" extension organize-search-engines_1.96.03-fx.xpi. The same warring in button [CB] (PERFORMANCE WARNING) and Super Start extension

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PERFORMANCE WARNING: Search service falling back to synchronous initialization. This is generally the consequence of an add-on using a deprecated search service API.
You may find more details about this problem at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/nsIBrowserSearchService#async_warning
Callstack:
resource://gre/components/nsSearchService.js 2882 SRCH_SVC__ensureInitialized
resource://gre/components/nsSearchService.js 3998 SRCH_SVC_getEngineByName
jar:file:///D:/MyPROGRAMs/INET/PaleMoon28/Profiles/pm28-prof01/extensions/ose@baton34dev.xpi!/components/nsSEOrganizer.js 256 removeNonExisting
jar:file:///D:/MyPROGRAMs/INET/PaleMoon28/Profiles/pm28-prof01/extensions/ose@baton34dev.xpi!/components/nsSEOrganizer.js 111 SEOrganizer___init
jar:file:///D:/MyPROGRAMs/INET/PaleMoon28/Profiles/pm28-prof01/extensions/ose@baton34dev.xpi!/components/nsSEOrganizer.js 78 SEOrganizer
resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm 387 createInstance

Сan you guys help fix and rewrite the function in these cases, how will it be correct?

[firefoxed]

hat's a subfolder of your Profiles/Default folder.
From here you can copy paste aka import/export the files wherever you want.

So you don't actually need an extension to specifically do this with Pale Moon.

Too easy!
Thank you!!!

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Ignore that warning, no one cares about Mozilla's opinion on that specific matter. At least, I don't. However, if you do wanna fix it ask JustOff.. He knows how.

[back2themoon]

Just installed it, wonderful extension. Many thanks to Baton34.

(I'd love to have custom folder icons )