![]() ![]() Once you’ve located the Glims settings click on “Search Engines List” and uncheck all boxes in the list (including the one for Startpage that is already there). Finish the installer and restart Safari.Īccess Glims settings through the Safari Preferences. The next step is Engine selection and whatever you pick here is not important as we’ll be changing it to Startpage anyway. In this case the goal is to add a custom search engine, this is something both versions can do so I went with the Light version. I was very happy to see this as I don’t like adding bulk when I don’t need it. Once you’ve downloaded and opened the installer walk through the first few steps until you see a version selection. Glims is a Safari plugin that enables additional features in the browser.Ĭustom search engines (the feature we’re after in this article), select a source for search suggestions (the stuff that pops up as you’re typing a search), search results thumbnail images and favicons in every tab (I like this). (Firefox users go here instead) Let’s begin. If it’s any good, this will make things a whole lot easier for those that prefer Startpage or their sister Ixquick as primary search engines. Then I started thinking, how long ago was it that I had these bad experiences with Glims? It’s been more than a year, no, wait, this was when I still lived in the old place so… Wow, it’s been four years! I have to give Glims a fair shake and see if the software has improved. I mentioned that Glims has been the cause of some stability issues for me in the past, Safari froze often and sometimes took the whole Mac down with it, so I have not used it again since. Startpage does not have a browser extension that makes it very easy, instead a piece of software has to be installed called Glims. A little while ago I wrote about Startpage and though it is my search engine of choice and I recommend it’s use to anyone I also mentioned that adding it as your browser’s default search engine was a bit of a hassle.
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