Where are search plugins?

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Anonymosity
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Where are search plugins?

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In SeaMonkey 2.49, where are added search plugins stored in the profile? They are no longer in a directory called "searchplugins".
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Re: Where are search plugins?

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I think they have been moved to the search.json.mozlz4 file in your profile folder.

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Re: Where are search plugins?

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In that case, I should be able to remove the "searchplugins" folder from SM 2.46 and see no difference in the search engines, since that version also has that file in its profile.
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Re: Where are search plugins?

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SM 2.46 still use the searchplugins folder for engines storage, while the search.* files in the profile folder store some additional data. Only after upgrading to 2.49 your engines are migrated to the search.json.mozlz4 file, and the searchplugins folder is simply ignored from then.
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Re: Where are search plugins?

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I removed the searchplugins folder from my SM 2.46 profile and got some new search plugins. The folder never reappeared. I think it was converted to the new system already.

I looked at search.json, and it seems to list only those search plugins that are within SeaMonkey itself, not the ones I added. The other file - search.json.mozlz4 - seems to have at least some of the items I added. Was there something secret about the search plugins that the names had to be less easy to read?
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Re: Where are search plugins?

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nohamelin wrote:SM 2.46 still use the searchplugins folder for engines storage, while the search.* files in the profile folder store some additional data. Only after upgrading to 2.49 your engines are migrated to the search.json.mozlz4 file, and the searchplugins folder is simply ignored from then.
nohamelin,

I wondered why I only had some of my search plugins when I used a ESR portable Seamonkey 2.46 and then manually updated to one of Akalla's 2.49.1 builds... now I know. Any idea why the Mozilla developers changed over to json over the older format?

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Re: Where are search plugins?

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ndebord wrote:
nohamelin wrote:SM 2.46 still use the searchplugins folder for engines storage, while the search.* files in the profile folder store some additional data. Only after upgrading to 2.49 your engines are migrated to the search.json.mozlz4 file, and the searchplugins folder is simply ignored from then.
nohamelin,

I wondered why I only had some of my search plugins when I used a ESR portable Seamonkey 2.46 and then manually updated to one of Akalla's 2.49.1 builds... now I know. Any idea why the Mozilla developers changed over to json over the older format?
Most of the reasons were summarized here:
http://blog.queze.net/post/2015/11/02/W ... -hijacking

I don't check often the SeaMonkey forums...
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