[question] which (mobile) browsers support OpenSearch?

Autodiscovery of search plugins gives the user the ability to easily add alternative (and privacy-respecting) search engines, including autocompletion (and other) features.

Common desktop browsers (e.g. Firefox, Chromium or MS-Edge) offer Autodiscovery of search plugins based on the OpenSearch protocol. But it is very hard to find a mobile browser that can do that too ...

I opened this issue to collect more informations about browser that support OpenSearch, especially I am looking for moobile (Android) alternatives, since my favourite browser sadly does not [1] [2] [3] [4].

The intention of this issue is to collect some recommendations we can add to our documentation / hints are welcome ...

Related:

• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/1655
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/1288
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/1613#issuecomment-1214293533
• POST vs GET --> some broswers don't like HTTP POST requests in a OpenSearch query / e.g. Chrome on iOS : https://app.element.io/#/room/#searxng:matrix.org/$4_hkVaUiVBW93F2uh8YcDY3J3SKIh5ERs8pkUqyQP0E
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2086#issuecomment-1374804339
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/1866
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/2133#discussioncomment-4956291
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/1288
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2190
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/546
• Vavalid does not offer Autodiscovery of search plugins based on the OpenSearch protocol