Despite being set as default, custom search engine doesn’t get invoked unless shortcut is used

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@yellowfinch

Huh. I cannot get the search engine shortcuts (example for StartPage is :sp) to work in either:

  • Private Window’s URL address field
  • non-Private Window’s URL address field

A lot of details about the search engine shortcuts:

‘No longer able to do custom search engine URLs?’

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‘Simple shortcuts for URLs - #4 by 289wk’