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Getting Started

KSSE can be wired up as a search engine in your browser so that typing in the address bar sends queries straight to your KSSE instance. The URL template is the same across browsers: 

https://your-ksse-host/search?q=%s

Replace the host above with wherever your KSSE instance is reachable. The %s placeholder is what each browser substitutes with your query.

Chrome

  1. Open chrome://settings/searchEngines.
  2. Next to Site search, click Add.
  3. Fill in the fields:
    • Search engine: KSSE
    • Shortcut: ksse (or k — whatever you want to type first)
    • URL with %s in place of query: https://your-ksse-host/search?q=%s
  4. Click Add. To make KSSE the default, use the ⋮ menu next to it and choose Make default.

Firefox

Firefox doesn't expose a built-in UI for adding arbitrary search engines by URL, but it picks them up automatically from sites that advertise one, or via the bookmark keyword trick:

  1. Open the Bookmarks Manager (Ctrl+Shift+O) and choose Add bookmark.
  2. Fill in the fields:
    • Name: KSSE
    • URL: https://your-ksse-host/search?q=%s (Firefox accepts %s in bookmark URLs)
    • Keyword: k (or any short trigger)
  3. Save. Typing k your query in the address bar will now search KSSE.

To make it the default engine for address-bar searches (no keyword needed), KSSE needs to serve an OpenSearch description — once that lands, Firefox will offer Add Search Engine from the address-bar menu when you visit the site.

Edge

  1. Open edge://settings/searchEngines.
  2. Click Add.
  3. Fill in the fields:
    • Search engine: KSSE
    • Shortcut: ksse
    • URL with %s in place of query: https://your-ksse-host/search?q=%s
  4. Save. To make it default, open the ⋯ menu next to KSSE and choose Make default.

Verify

Pop open a new tab, type your shortcut followed by a query, and press enter. You should land on the KSSE results page with the query already filled in.