You can set MiniSearch as your browser's address-bar search engine using the pattern http://localhost:7860/?q=%s, in which your search term replaces %s.
Yes! For this, open the Menu and change the "Inference Type" to OpenAI-Compatible API. Then configure the Base URL, and optionally set an API Key and a Model to use.
For example, if you to set the password to PepperoniPizza, then this is what you should add to your .env: ACCESS_KEYS="PepperoniPizza"