(How) Can I add dict.zero-g.net to Firefox' search engines?

[Taranchul]

Hi,
I'd like to add dict.zero-g.net to the search engines in Firefox, but when I'm on the website, FF doesn't offer to add it to them. How can I do that? (If we can't yet, please treat this as a feature request.)

Thanks for keeping Beolingus alive!

[haukex]

Thanks for this suggestion! I will look into how / whether it's possible to add to Firefox's search engines.

I believe @christophfriedrich is using a search keyword (see #31), I don't have the time to test right now but I think it's this feature.

The Mozilla website also describes right-clicking in the search box, but that is something this app doesn't support yet, so I'll look into that too.

[christophfriedrich]

Yes, I'm using the search keyword and yes, the two links describe exactly this feature. The bookmark I use has the URL https://dict.zero-g.net/#q=%s and I assigned the keyword beo to it, so when I type e.g. beo autumn into my URL bar, it will open the app with the search results for "autumn". You can add this to your bookmarks manually.

Indeed the app doesn't support the easier way to add it via the right-click menu-- I guess that's because it's not an actual form that gets submitted somewhere. I assume if Firefox understands that this field is a search field, it will offer both the keyword option in the right-click menu AND to add it as a search engine?

The screenshot shows what the right-click menu looks like on wikipedia.de -- Interestingly, this doesn't work on google.com 🤔

[haukex]

Thanks! I can now confirm the instructions I linked to earlier work for me as well with a URL of https://dict.zero-g.net/#q=%s.

I'll look into the other possibilities later. I'm hoping the right click menu shouldn't be too difficult (I hope I just have to wrap the search box in a <form> and perhaps change its ID).

[haukex]

Now that I've implemented #39, I think that solves this issue too, so I think I'll close this issue unless someone objects? Edit: Actually, I'll keep this issue open for now, since I still haven't wrapped the input box in a <form>.