Using gimmeasearx as a custom search engine on Firefox

If you are running gimmeasearx locally (which we recommend), you can visit your instance on Firefox, right click on the address bar and press "Add search engine". You can then go to the Search settings (about:preferences#search) and set gimmeasearx as your default. If you scroll down a little bit more, you can also set a prefix to invoke gimmeasearx. (e.g. setting "@g" as the prefix will allow you to write "@g how to stop using google" to search "how to stop using google" with gimmeasearx.)

If you are using a custom port or a custom domain, you will have to edit opensearch.xml (in the root tree of the source code) manually. Replace "localhost:8080" (line 7) to "myhost.com:whateverportgimmeasearxislisteningon". (e.g. localhost:9991 if you are listening on port 9991)