Safari extension broken on iOS 17.5

Database

Ever since updating to iOS 17.5, the Kagi Safari extension no longer works consistently. It will work for one or two searches (if that) and then stop redirecting.

The extension should always redirect.

Breezio

Also seeing this since 17.5

OldMan973471

Also was able to replicate. Took me 3 searches. Did test Kagi 1, test Kagi 2, and then test Kagi 3 and it went to DDG. I just typed in the address bar of safari.

Yay it’s planned. 🙂.

andreagrandi

I’ve been using Kagi for a while now but in the last few days Kagi extension for Safari is not working correctly.

When I search something in the url bar of Safari, instead of redirecting me to Kagi, it just performs the search on DuckDuckGo (which is my default search engine before Kagi) and I see the DDG page with the results.

Without me doing anything on that page, open another tab and almost in the background the search page is reloaded, this time with Kagi!

What’s wrong with my configuration?

Thanks

Kagi estension to work correctly

sefidel

My guess is that DuckDuckGo (or any other search engine) occasionally serves the page faster than the extension receiving the onBeforeNavigate event & initiating a redirect.

Vlad

Apple made a breaking change in 17.5, we are working on a fix. Thanks for patience.

astronaut

I’ve never had issues with the Kagi for Safari extension, I’m lucky I guess?

Vlad

It looks background scripts in Safari broke in the recent iOS release, many other extensions are affected https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/750330

Our team is scrambling to find a workaround. We have a TestFlight ready that uses a different method and should be posting a link here today.

We also invite our users to try using Orion for iOS and have a native Kagi integration support, avoiding issues like this in the future.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id1484498200

Vlad

We have a TestFlight of Kagi Search for Safari iOS which should work.

Please let us know if it works and we will release it for all users!

https://testflight.apple.com/join/nx6Gvf4h

It would also help if you took a second and sent feedback to Apple to consider including Kagi as a search engine choice in Safari.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

Thank you 🙏

Database

Vlad Been testing it for a bit today, so far so good. Will report back if there's any issues.

TDV

Loaded beta from test flight. When I open a new private browsing window and I enter a query into Safari’s search bar, the Kagi search results page is shown but no results are displayed. If I press Safari’s refresh button, the results are displayed correctly as the page is refreshed.

Vlad

TDV Did you enter private session token?

TDV

To be more specific the extension version is 2.2.4 (26).

dino

TDV please try latest build (28) we just uploaded, and let us know if that works for you?