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Soul browser (built on Chromium browser open-source), when I highlight a text on a webpage and the Context menu pops up, then I choose Web Search, but instead of opening a new tab with Google Search inside Soul browser, it opens in Google search app.

If I change the search engine to like Duck Duck Go, it still opens in the Google search app.

This is very annoying and I have searched for a solution for over a year. I even posted on Reddit and one other person has the same problem, https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1cvp1oj/comment/m4ehgqk/?context=3.

I am on Redmi Note 12 4G, Android 13, MIUI 14.0.12 (refuse to update to HyperOS).

The weird thing is, if I try the same in Chrome, Kiwi, or Brave, Web Search opens inside the respective browser as it should.

As a note: I have Soul browser on Redmi Note 7 (lavender) Android 11 and Redmi Note 8 (gingko) Android 12, Web Search opens inside Soul browser, which makes this very weird.

Anyone have a clue as to why this happens?

Google Search app setting to open inside browser is switched to OFF.

Is there a way to edit this myself, or any addon app that can redirect Web Search in Soul to open inside Soul - App developer is not fixing this problem, I have asked several times.

Besides this, Soul browser might be the best browser I have had, and I have tried them all.

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You'd have set the Google app as the default to handle search intents. I recommend that you install a new search engine app (or remove and re-install an existing one) to reset the "Always" status granted to the Google app.

Thereafter, the "Web Search" option should throw a prompt around which app you want to use to perform a web search. Choose "Soul" and set it as the default by clicking "Always".

This is the recommended way because there's no general "Default apps" entry available for the "Web search" Android component.

Note: All "Web search" queries will be redirected to soul browser after that. Most browsers do not integrate the web search component and instead use their own native implementation of "search" that redirects to a tab within the same browser.

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