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this is not sarcasm. so often i have wished for something like this. and now i know that it exists!
sincerely, a long time firefox user
so I tried a url that works on my local network and is in my history, bookmarks etc. Every single one of those modifiers sent that hostname with the modifier to my default search engine. Maybe it doesn't play nicely, or at all with privacy badger, ublock origin, ddg etc plugins installed?
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Right click inside a search box. There should be the option "Add a Keyword for this search".
Where? What is a search box?
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…
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…
My favourite find of the past 12 months is Ctrl+L which gives the address bar focus so you can begin typing.
In Firefox use this for quick find on the page
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This is one of my favorite features that I use daily. I use the URL " https://www.google.com/search?q=site:ycombinator.com+%s " to search content from HN, and " https://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+%s " to search on Reddit. I also have " https://www.npmjs.com/package/%s " to directly go to a package page on npm.
Me too, on Microsoft Edge. Until one day an update nuked away all of my custom search keywords :( This is probably less of a problem on firefox, where they are regular bookmarks.
As soon as you were able to select multiple tabs for making bookmarks I just assumed that you could ctrl+c and get the urls in plaintext. But doesn't seem to be that easy.