Enhancement: Web Search plugin open base websites on web search results

[Garyouki]

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Problem Description

When I type a keyword configured in the Web Search plugin, it shows suggestions correctly, but pressing Enter or clicking the result does nothing — no browser opens, and there’s no error shown.

To Reproduce

1. Open Flow Launcher.

2. Type the keyword for Web Search (e.g. github).

Press Enter.

Nothing happens — Chrome does not open.

Expected behavior:
Chrome (default browser) should open the search URL.

Screenshots

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Flow Launcher Version

2.0.1

Windows Build Number

26100.6584

Error Log

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[Garyouki]

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[Garyouki]

I have tried restarting Flow and changing the default browser, but the issue still persists.

[Garyouki]

Actually, this might work as designed, as it seems like I need to specify something inside of it.
I guess I want to set up aliases in Flow Launcher — for example, typing “github” should directly open www.github.com
instead of doing a web search. So I could just redirect to that site. Is this something we plan to support?

[Jack251970]

Yes, you need to search something