SearXNG - Privacy Search Engine

Adds SearXNG as the default search engine in your browser. Secure your queries with instant access to SearX metasearch engine.

SearXNG - Privacy Search Engine

SearXNG - Privacy Search Engine is a Firefox add-on that allows you to set SearXNG as your default search engine. It ensures secure and private queries by aggregating results from various search services and databases without tracking or profiling users.

Add-on stats

Users: 725
-5
Rating: 4.75
(24)
Version: 1.5 (Last updated: 2022-04-27)
Creation date: 2022-04-11
Weekly download count: 43
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Overrides search engine: Yes
Size: 46.98K
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome
Not available on Android
Not available on Edge
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Add-on summary

SearXNG is a free Internet metasearch engine that aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are not tracked or profiled.

SearXNG is a fork of SearX

SearXNG

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • best privacy search engine
  • very good web extension
  • Thanks for your extension, good work!
Cons
  • instance is overloaded and provides no results half the time
  • Wish it was more distributed than simply searx.be
  • would be nice if you could select a SearXNG provider
Most mentioned
  • overloaded instance
  • need for better provider selection
  • support for multiple SearXNG instances
User reviews
by Vedun, 2024-12-14

Is it possible to change the search engine from searx.be to searx.org?
by Gerardo, 2024-05-09
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

SearXNG - Privacy Search Engine requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

SearXNG - Privacy Search Engine has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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