Hacker News Reader

Comment by atonse | Hacker News Reader

I really like Kagi and this is probably Apple’s fault but the requirement to install a safari extension which then hijacks your default search is very janky and is my #1 complaint.

Any reason it can’t just be added as a search engine?

View on HN

You're right, it's not possible to set a custom search engine on safari. An extension is the only way. Blame apple :)

Insanity. There used to be some kind of opensearch type thing even in Safari years ago.

I guess they took it away. Ridiculous.

Probably the reason why google pay so much to them. This is so insane....

It's pretty bad, but to be clear, it's not that you can't pick anything other than the default, it's that you are given a tiny selection of the biggest players and have to choose from them. Other browsers allow you to specify an arbitrary URL for it to inject the query string into.

I think Safari used to allow this. Or maybe they didn't, because I used to use something like this years ago and maybe that was when I was using chrome. Does anyone remember if Safari had this?

Damn, that's something that needs to be regulated.

You hit the nail on the head - Apple does not allow the addition of custom search engines at this time.

Even on other browsers, you need an extension if you want search in private browsing mode to work, since the private tabs/windows don't have access to your Kagi signin cookie. I generally just use DuckDuckGo when I open a private window, though, to avoid needing another extension.

isn't that a feature? kagi search requires sign-in, so it's not private and should not be used in a private browsing session.

Have you tried their browser Orion? I can barely tell I’m in a different browser.

I love Orion. My only complaint is the way that the address bar disappears when scrolling is a bit jarring, the animation seems too fast.

I have both Orion and Vivaldi instead for this reason. If Orion ends up being too janky, I fall back to Vivaldi.

https://kagi.com/orion/

https://vivaldi.com/

Reply on news.ycombinator.com