Make it easy to make Brave Search the default search provider with Chromium policy

Brave Search
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I’m building a Linux desktop SOE and am hoping to get Brave Browser in. While I’ve configured Brave using policy as I liked, the browser ironically defaults to using Google Search.

I presumed that as “Brave” is a pre-defined search engine in the browser I could just do this with the json policy format I’m using:

"DefaultSearchProviderName": "Brave",

However it doesn’t work. It appears that I am required to define all of the DefaultSearchProvider fields from Chromium Policy as if I was adding a brand new search engine which didn’t already exist in the browser.

See https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/atomic-groups/#DefaultSearchProvider

  1. Could you please make it easier to make Brave search the default search using policy?
  2. In the short-term could someone please provide a complete example of how to do by defining every ‘DefaultSearchProvider’ Chromium policy field?

Thank you!

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PS: For point 2 I’m talking about all these Chrome policy fields:

  • DefaultSearchProviderAlternateURLs
  • “DefaultSearchProviderEnabled”: true,
  • DefaultSearchProviderEncodings
  • DefaultSearchProviderIconURL
  • DefaultSearchProviderImageURL
  • DefaultSearchProviderImageURLPostParams
  • “DefaultSearchProviderKeyword”: “br”,
  • “DefaultSearchProviderName”: “Brave”,
  • DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL
  • “DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL”: “https://search.brave.com/search?q={searchTerms}”,
  • DefaultSearchProviderSearchURLPostParams
  • DefaultSearchProviderSuggestURL
  • DefaultSearchProviderSuggestURLPostParams

EDIT: Changed SearchURL from https://search.brave.com/search?q=%s to https://search.brave.com/search?q={searchTerms}. See it’s non-trivial!

Thank you!