remove bing and more from search

[anirrr]

debian 9 64bit
thunderbird 60.3.0

edit -> preferences -> general -> default search engine

On the list are
bing
yahoo
amazon
aol
twitter
wikipedia

I want to remove all of them. Maybe replace them with duckduckgo.
How do I remove them?
Thank you.

[LIMPET235]

Hi,
Check the options in the Search section, "One click search Engines."
Right click to highlight whichever you do not require & hit the delete key.

&, AFAIK, Duckduckgo is available in the list.

[tanstaafl]

Version 60.* doesn't support adding DuckDuckGo or Google as a search provider. Its due to a needed feature being removed from the Mozilla toolkit. There is a bug report about that, with a proposed patch for Thunderbird to restore that feature. However, there is no information on when that fix might be released.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14814752 has a link to a possible workaround that I haven't tested.

[LIMPET235]

Thanks tanstaafl.
As I don't run TB v60, I'm not up on all the mods.
I only have Firefox v62 for ref;.

[anirrr]

Thanks.
> options in the Search section, "One click search Engines.

Can you tell more in detail?

[tanstaafl]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/open-search (out of date though).

Its currently limited to bing, yahoo, amazon, aol, twitter and wikipedia (all of them built-in). AFAIK none of the ways to add a search engine work with version 60. though I haven't experimented with the workaround mentioned in the comments at https://techdows.com/2018/08/thunderbir ... ngine.html (using the Firefox mozlz4-edit add-on to edit a data file) to see if it works.

[LIMPET235]

Hi,
I was wrong with my reply.
Please check tanstaafl's reply...^^^, on the 24th Nov.

[anirrr]

thunderbird preferences -> general -> default search engine

There is no option to delete a search engine. Only
to select one.

[tanstaafl]

I'm not aware of a way to delete one unless you want to hack the omni.ja file that contains the default preferences. That file occasionally gets updated when Thunderbird is updated. I recommend you don't try it.

Whats the big deal anyways about deleting some of the choices from the list box if you can't add other search engines?

I tried copying the search.json.mozlz4 file from my Firefox profile to my Thunderbird profile and it caused the mouse cursor to constantly twirl when I was at the main window in Thunderbird. The Firefox profile doesn't use a searchplugins directory like Thunderbird does so there are probably some incompatibilities that need to be worked around.