Kagi Search extension doesn't work consistently on Linux browsers installed via Flatpak

subpar_stubborn680

I'm able to reproduce this on a fresh install of Bazzite on bare metal, and this has happened on Fedora as well in the past. Here is exactly what occured:

Installed Brave via Flatpkak
Enabled sync, which synced all extensions from my other computer
Brave Search is still the default search engine
Search something on Kagi.com
Kagi is still not an option in the Brave search engine settings

Unfortunately since I'm using Bazzite, the best and most reliable way of installing Brave is via Flatpak. My only other option is utilizing Distrobox to create an Ubuntu container or something and installing Brave on that. I'd really prefer not to do that.

The extension should take control of the search engine setting entirely, and force it to be Kagi all the time, even in private windows.

fxgn

subpar_stubborn680

Unfortunately since I'm using Bazzite, the best and most reliable way of installing Brave is via Flatpak. My only other option is utilizing Distrobox to create an Ubuntu container or something and installing Brave on that. I'd really prefer not to do that.

It's not your only option, you can also use rpm-ostree. See the Fedora Atomic section in Brave installation instructions:

https://brave.com/linux/

Have you tried installing Brave that way and checking if the issue still happens? If not, it's probably not related to Flatpak

RoxyRoxyRoxy

Hi, admittedly I'm not familiar with brave nor linux, but if you don't mind I have some steps to try. First, have you tried removing and re-adding the Kagi extension? Are you able to try this with any other browsers also installed via flatpak? I believe having a token set in the extension should allow Kagi usage in private mode regardless, is this the case? These will help us narrow down the possible causes. Thanks!

gerwaric

I have this problem as well, on CachyOS, without a flatpak install of brave:

brave-bin 1:1.83.112-1 (installed from official cachy repo)
kagi extension 1.2.2.5 (installed from the chrome web store)

I can login into kagi and search on kagi.com, but it's not showing up as a choice in brave://settings/search.

Let me know if there's any logging or experiments I can help with to troubleshoot.

RoxyRoxyRoxy

Hmm, seems like it might be a Brave issue then. I'll ask the team to review.