wisniewskit/google-search-fixer

Support for firefox desktop?

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thamaraiselvam commented
Support for firefox desktop?
Rob--W commented

Is there a significant difference between the search experience for Firefox desktop and Chrome on desktop?

chrisvdb commented

Is there a significant difference between the search experience for Firefox desktop and Chrome on desktop?

Yes, very much...

explorer422 commented

Hi, @thamaraiselvam.
I am currently using the Firefox add-on call User-Agent Switcher and Manager [Link] for spoofing my desktop browser. You can probably check that out. 👍

ale5000-git commented

Is there a significant difference between the search experience for Firefox desktop and Chrome on desktop?

On Firefox on desktop the voice search on Google website is missing.

Rob--W commented

Is there a significant difference between the search experience for Firefox desktop and Chrome on desktop?

On Firefox on desktop the voice search on Google website is missing.

The underlying technology (speech recognition) is not supported on Firefox, neither on desktop, nor on Android. I don't see the button when I visit Google on Android with and without this extension.

ale5000-git commented

I have tried on Chrome on Android and:

  1. Italian Google as mobile => No speech button present
  2. Italian Google viewed as desktop => Speech button present
  3. English Google as mobile => Speech button present
  4. English Google viewed as desktop => Speech button present

I'm not sure but probably it may need to spoof also other things.

ale5000-git commented

I cannot tell it for sure but isn't the speech recognition on the site itself?
I always though that the browser just use the microphone and the Google website use the Google servers to recognize it but I may be wrong.

Edit: When you visit the site on Firefox for Android with this add-on enabled and an account logged on Google and you choose to switch to English it display the voice search for 1 second before disappear.