I really wish there was an easy way to search text in all open tabs on Chrome / Brave.
Firefox address bar
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Re: Firefox address bar
#52My favourite find of the past 12 months is Ctrl+L which gives the address bar focus so you can begin typing.
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#53That's really cool! But perhaps this should be made discoverable by e.g. showing the tokens or just a list of different search options somehow (right clicking the address bar, or a small button on it you can press, ...)
BTW something I really dislike about firefox is the switch to tab behavior when your bookmark/url happens to match an open tab: I guess it tries to be economical and bring you to a tab where you already have that page open. But that means switching context to another window or even virtual desktop for me. Also sometimes maybe I want to keep the other tab at its current state? I wish this behavior could be disabled, it has almost never been what I wanted.
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#54My favourite find of the past 12 months is Ctrl+L which gives the address bar focus so you can begin typing.
Welcome to the club!
The day I knew about it and till know I don’t think I ever clicked in search bar to search.
This shortcut is very helpful!
In similar context, Ctrl+w for closing tab.
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#55The killer feature is that you can extend this with your own macros. E.g. if you want the address bar to recognize "hn " as a prefix keyword, and redirect "hn firefox address bar" to, say, Algolia — you simply create a bookmark with "Keyword": "hn" and "URL": " https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%s " (not actually a URL, don't click on it) – %s indicating where the macro parameter substitutes. Then "hn firefox address bar" ma…
This is Firefox's best kept secret. To this day I cannot fathom anyone willingly switching from Firefox to Chrome/Edge/any other Chromium-based browser. There are so many tiny features that are useful at least to myself, while a minor JavaScript performance advantage isn't something that important in the grand scale of things.
You can do this in Chromium as well. So it might be Chromium's best kept secret too.
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#56Is there anything similar in Safari?
Re: Firefox address bar
#57My favourite find of the past 12 months is Ctrl+L which gives the address bar focus so you can begin typing.
F6 works too, and you can press it again to unfocus it (TIL)
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is Firefox's best kept secret. To this day I cannot fathom anyone willingly switching from Firefox to Chrome/Edge/any other Chromium-based browser. There are so many tiny features that are useful at least to myself, while a minor JavaScript performance advantage isn't something that important in the grand scale of things.
You can do this in Chromium as well. So it might be Chromium's best kept secret too.
How does one search open tabs in Chrome?
Re: Firefox address bar
#59This is great, but I can't never remember these shortcuts, or others useful FF shortcuts, "?" should have been a shortcut to a help page listing this kind of things, or maybe there is already such page I'm not aware of.
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#60There's also @ for steering the browser to a specific search engine (e.g., wikipedia search).
The canonical URL for how the address bar short cuts is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...