You should be able to set any website with a search function as your default search engine like you can in Chrome instead of being confined to the small list of search engines that Firefox provides you.
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Some potentially related ideas here:
Search engine management - add and remove search engines
Adding custom search engines
I think it is already supported:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox
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