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Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by a_c »

perihelions wrote: post #6

The 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…

I have been using duckduckgo's bang feature for searching a particular site. e.g. !hn to search on here, !w on wiki and !g back to google is the result from ddg looks off.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by bmacho »

velut wrote: post #50
bmacho wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have that. Where? Algolia and google search boxes(? the input fields?) don't show anything like that. edit: also if I modify a keyword for my opensearch/xml search engines in about:preferences#search , it won't show up as a regular bookmark. Also I can't even see the URL for those search engines.

Right click inside a search box. There should be the option "Add a Keyword for this search".

Where? What is a search box?

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by peppermint_gum »

frankjr wrote: post #2

I don't think I've ever used these modifiers but Firefox's address bar, Awesomebar, is indeed awesome. Compared to the utter garbage that is Chromium's Omnibar, I can find any page I've visited within a few key strokes. Chromium, on the other hand, almost immediately forgets and you have to go to the actual History to find it. Even Safari is miles ahead of Chromium in this regard. I'm still convinced that crippling O…

> Even Safari is miles ahead of Chromium in this regard.

I hate Safari's address bar. One visit to a mistyped address can ruin your suggestions forever, that typoed URL will be always preferred over the correct one.

Firefox's address bar is indeed great. Always works flawlessly.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by WXLCKNO »

ghostpepper wrote: post #58
wartijn_ wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Ctrl+shift+a or click that little arrow at the top right of the window and you can search there.

I also just saw this https://blog.google/products/chrome/search-your-tabs-bookmar...

I think I like the shorter Firefox version better but this is maybe easier to remember at first

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by rsapkf »

seren wrote: post #14

I love them, use them every day on desktop and I don't understand why it does not work on mobile

The latest Firefox mobile update added a dropdown to the address bar for switching search engines and searching through history/bookmarks/tabs easily.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by mrj »

Aardwolf wrote: post #53

That'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 alrea…

I think you can use control-enter to open a new tab instead. But with Firefox open right now I searched for several open things and it didn't offer to switch tabs. I've usually only seen that when searching tabs with % though.
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