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So instead of hhttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch#Open... we have https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web....

Simple enough and it seems OpenSearch will still work embedded on websites for a while. But it's unclear how they plan to get website owners to migrate.

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> But it's unclear how they plan to get website owners to migrate.

And it's unclear why they should have to. OpenSearch is a standard that all modern browsers currently support. Why should a site author have to support OpenSearch for every browser and build/maintain a WebExtension just for Firefox?

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