Default web browser search provider in GNOME shell

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> Currently, the web (epiphany) browser in GNOME has a search provider so
> that you can search for something on the web. I don't use this feature
> (unless by accident), as i use Firefox as my default browser. I have
> epiphany installed for trying out websites in different browsers.
> 
> I know that the search providers are provided by the apps themselves,
> but just wondering if in the case of searching the web,

The epiphany search provider for gnome-shell doesn't search the web, it
only goes through your history.

> that there is a
> search provider in Fedora Workstation that simply searches with whatever
> you have set as your default webbrowser.
> 
> It just seems this is a point where a user will get confused when a
> different browser (other than their default) is shown when searching for
> the internet in shell.

That sort of special-casing could be done in gnome-shell. It can know what the
default browser is (the default handler for x-scheme-handler/http), and could
filter out the search results from non-default browsers (all the other apps
handling x-scheme-handler/http other than the default).