search.gripe

Chrome on a computerworks

1. Copy the search URL above.
2. Go to Settings → Search engine → Manage search engines and site search (or type chrome://settings/searchEngines in the address bar).
3. Next to Site search, click Add. Name: search.gripe, Shortcut: sg (anything you like), URL: paste it.
4. Click ⋮ next to search.gripe and choose Make default.

Chrome may already list search.gripe under "Inactive shortcuts" after you've visited this page; then just click Activate and Make default.

Firefox on a computerworks

1. On this page, right-click the address bar and choose Add "search.gripe" (or open the search-engine button at the left of the address bar's dropdown and pick the one with the green +).
2. Go to Settings → Search → Default Search Engine and choose search.gripe.

Or add it by hand: Settings → Search → Search Shortcuts → Add, with the search URL above and a keyword like sg.

Firefox on Androidworks

1. Settings → Search → Default search engine → Add search engine.
2. Name: search.gripe, Search string URL: the search URL above. Save, then select it.

Safari (Mac, iPhone, iPad)not possible

Safari only lets you choose from its own short list (Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia…) and has no way to add a custom search engine, so no website can set itself as Safari's default.

• Safari extensions that "customize the search engine" exist in the App Store, but they work by catching Safari's search on the built-in engine and redirecting it, so that engine still receives your query first. That defeats the point here, so we don't recommend one.
• You can bookmark search.gripe and use the box above, or use the tool shortcuts directly from tools.gripe.
• Firefox and Chrome on the Mac work fine.

Microsoft Edgeworks

1. Open edge://settings/searchEngines (Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Address bar and search → Manage search engines).
2. Click Add: name search.gripe, shortcut sg, URL: the search URL above.
3. Click ⋯ next to it → Make default.

Braveworks

1. Open brave://settings/searchEngines, click Add next to Site search, and paste the search URL.
2. Click ⋮ → Make default.

Firefox on Androidworks See the Firefox tab.

Chrome on Androidusually

Chrome on Android can't add an engine by URL. After you've visited this page, open Settings → Search engine; search.gripe may be listed under "Recently visited" (it's read from this site's search description). Pick it there.

iPhone and iPadnot possible

Safari, Chrome, Firefox and every other iOS browser offer only a fixed list of engines. Bookmark search.gripe to use it by hand.