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Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by gnomespaceship »

velut wrote: post #15
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…

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.

Btw if you also use DuckDuckGo, you can start your search with "!hn" and "!r" bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by bmacho »

ckosidows wrote: post #79
bmacho wrote: post #26

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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.

Same happened to me recently. I lost my custom search keywords randomly one day

Happened after a windows update for me. I've tried to restore them, inspect the database where they should be, but they were already gone. Maybe if you have a system backup, you can find yours!

I've found this random tutorial how to mass create Edge search engines by editing the Edge database https://jeffhandley.com/2022-10-17/custom-search-engines if you want to store your search engines in a separate file in the future

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by NikkiA »

wartijn_ wrote: post #55
atomlib wrote: post #49

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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.

As far as I know, you can do it in all major browsers (probably not safari though)

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by ajot »

gnomespaceship wrote: post #91
velut wrote: post #15

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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.

Btw if you also use DuckDuckGo, you can start your search with "!hn" and "!r" bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

And you can go full circle, adding DDG's bangs as bookmark keywords on Firefox!

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/01/13/use-all-of-duckduckgos-ban...

https://github.com/jameshealyio/bang-bookmarks/

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by mucle6 »

WXLCKNO wrote: post #66
ghostpepper wrote: post #58

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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

I thought I was a power user....

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by wincy »

Firefox updated the other day and started putting ads into my address bar when I search for stuff. “Firefox Sponsored Suggestions” or some other such nonsense. I had to look up how to disable it. At least I could.

I’m noticing the Google Omnibar will pop up logos and names of companies when I search for stuff which I wish I could disable. But I’ve found no way to do so. It’s just distracting and jarring.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by sxg »

NikkiA wrote: post #93
wartijn_ wrote: post #55

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You can do this in Chromium as well. So it might be Chromium's best kept secret too.

As far as I know, you can do it in all major browsers (probably not safari though)

You can do it in Raycast along with a lot of other shortcuts outside of web browsers. I actually like it better through Raycast because it acts as a universal search, app launcher, calculator, 1Password interface, etc. that's always available and not dependent on a browser.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by NikkiA »

Page titles (#) and web addresses ($) don't seem to work for me, but then they sound like they should be modifiers to the other search modifiers.

It should probably be noted that ^headphones like they suggest doesn't actually work, over here it only works with ^ headphones, since the ^ doesn't get applied until I press space and then the start of the address bar changes to "History" with a 'x' close option.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by ajot »

tjoff wrote: post #80

One thing I'm missing is able to copy the URL of many tabs. 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.

Not a solution, but I can copy multiple tabs addresses with a tree style tabs addon, Sideberry.
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