Ha, I've been using these for years, I thought it was better known!
Firefox address bar
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Re: Firefox address bar
#152I'd LOVE if there was a way to select the first Firefox Suggest result immediately instead of having to wade through search suggestions with down arrow. I _think_ Chrome has this?
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#153It used to be that search and address were two different fields in the browser UI. That helped - if typed in the address bar, you were probably looking for something in an address [so if you typed potato, it could search for a url in your local history with the word potato], and not for something in a web page.
Then Google realized you could combine the two; this makes it less likely you will use a competing search, gives you more places to show ads (as more things qualify as search) and most importantly - legitimizes tracking every page you open - as you did a web search for the URL!
Unfortunately, Chrome owns the web, and Mozilla copies everything they do. Especially when they are FF's main source of income.
IMO, the old system was more accurate and more private. The search bar is for web searches.
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#154I 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…
All I want is tab to search. Actual, identical-to-omnibar tab to search.
Actual search or autofill segment?
Autofill segment would be really useful, and no modern thing seem to be able to do it. But tab to search doesn't look very useful to me.
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#155The 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've been doing this on Brave for years.
https://itsbehnam.com/Brave-Hacks-I-Create-my-Own-Custom-Sea...
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#156I 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…
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#157I still enable the search bar, that you reach with Ctrl+K, while Ctrl+L sends you to the address bar.
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#158I 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…
For me it's the history of visited addresses. I can navigate the tree of urls typing very little. It feels like a trie.
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#159One 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.
I would swear this was in the right-click menu when multiple tabs were selected? But maybe it was some extension.
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#160Ever since browsers made the URL bar a search bar, it really messes with "naked TLD's" like https://ai
Very annoying indeed. I had to force myself to type a trailing / so "naked TLDs" are resolved correctly.