Don't add custom search engines

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12 support issues

Howard Samuel (Net Sense Design)

Aug 24, 2020

Are you still supporting this extension?

You have not made any updates in over a year and just does not seem as effective as it once was :(

Lee Hodsdon

Aug 22, 2019

Add option to change your toolbar icon's color

With Windows 10 and/or apps adopting a dark theme, your black toolbar icon disappears in a black toolbar. Add an option to let the user choose which color to use, like black, medium gray, or white.

Lee Hodsdon

Sep 3, 2018

How about redefining the MIME type?

The "Don't Add Custom Search" extension is still incomplete. I reviewed this extension in Jan 2018. Revisiting the sites still had them adding their search definitions to Chrome. The author came up with some new code. After a couple revisions, I re-reviewed this extension in Aug 2018. It is still flawed. Upon repeated revisits of sites that want to add their search definition, some still succeed - which means this extension fails.

https://github.com/gregsadetsky/chrome-dont-add-custom-search-engines/commit/aa02ac9760de3bf58d03215067075151e6013368

That shows the code for the "Don't Add Custom Search" extensions. Looks like we have OpenSearch.org to blame for autodiscovery of search descriptors. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch and https://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search, I wonder if an extension that redefines the application/opensearchdescription+xml MIME type would nullify the OpenSearch elements in a web page; however, maybe trying to change this MIME type's definition after the document (page) has already loaded (DOMContentLoaded) would be too late. From the Chromium article, this extension is using method 2 with an event listener.

Dan Reeves

Apr 8, 2018

Breaks certain websites

https://uk.webuy.com/ breaks while this extension is enabled

Goog Man

Dec 19, 2017

Provide a Blacklist

Your extension may block some custom search engines from being added, but it still allows many. Perhaps some sort of more aggressive blacklist can be added in the extension options for those more stubborn custom searches.

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Aug 2, 2017

Anyone Compared this...

Has anyone compared this extension to the UserScript? I read somewhere this doesn't work in all cases and I'm not sure if the extension and US are 1:1

Roxanne McCloud

Jul 8, 2017

Give us the option to add the custom

"X wants to add x.com search engine [Yes][No][No, Don't ask again]"

Greg M

Dec 12, 2016

Had to delete 10 Search Engines

Does not see to be doing much with newer versions of Chrome. Had to delete 10 search engines that snuck in to Chrome.

Adam Moeller

Sep 27, 2016

Remove the counter

I installed this extension because I like to keep my browsing experience clean. I don't like to have the extension icons change if possible. Can you add the option to turn off the counter?

Madis

Aug 18, 2016

Unblocked search engines

The following sites' search engines got still added: wordpress.com (and its rehosts) ebay.com emojipedia.org apkmirror.com okidoki.ee