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Old 10-30-2025, 04:45 AM   #18
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In light of Google deprecating support for search on older browsers, I've extended the patch to support changing the search engine to DuckDuckGo, FrogFind or Bing. Check out the latest release on GitHub!
How this was accomplished: pretty simple actually, I just patched the single occurrence of https://www.google.com/search?q= in the kindle_browser binary with an alternative search URL, padding it with extra slashes to make it the same length like so: http:///////www.frogfind.com/?q=
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