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Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by zo1 » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 5:52 PM UTC

sbjs wrote: post #164

matheusmoreira wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox is increasingly unfriendly to power users. Wouldn't surprise me if they got rid of this feature someday because they have statistics showing few people use it.

And rightfully so. Why maintain a feature for a small minority? Let them fork and maintain it themselves.

"WTF" is there to maintain in the feature anyways? If it's such a bloated mess that this kind of small feature causes maintenance issues and a lot of effort to include in subsequent releases, then maybe it is time for Firefox to fail.

Sigh, I've been using Firefox for almost 2 decades, and this is the first I've heard of this feature.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by ris58h » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 5:53 PM UTC

tonylemesmer wrote: post #52

My favourite find of the past 12 months is Ctrl+L which gives the address bar focus so you can begin typing.

It's not possible to focus back which is a bummer.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by vladxyz » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 5:54 PM UTC

tiffanyh wrote: post #142

Ever since browsers made the URL bar a search bar, it really messes with "naked TLD's" like https://ai

In firefox you can split the url bar from the search bar, to make the intent explicit. Additionally, you can set browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words to true in about:config, after which typing ai in the url bar will offer to "visit" http://ai/ as the default option.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by alextingle » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 6:03 PM UTC

seaal wrote: post #43

rvba wrote: post #40

Why isnt there a way to fix history. Say I have 50 sites about "headphones". I need to go through each of them to find thar particular one. So I open them one by one, but they land on top again and polute the search results.. what makes searching difficult.

There is, create a private window and your history will be fixed.

That is a legit useful tip. Thanks.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by kbrosnan » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 6:04 PM UTC

ris58h wrote: post #182

tonylemesmer wrote: post #52

My favourite find of the past 12 months is Ctrl+L which gives the address bar focus so you can begin typing.

It's not possible to focus back which is a bummer.

You can use F6 to focus the address bar. With it focused F6 will return focus to web content.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by alextingle » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 6:04 PM UTC

Now can they fix the URLbar so that focussing it doesn't weirdly select all. So frustrating when I want to edit a URL.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by mcpackieh » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 6:06 PM UTC

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…

With these search keywords, I've cut down on my general purpose search engine use dramatically, maybe 90%. Most of my searches through ddg/google used to be searches I intended to land on a known website with, so with search keywords for the search functionality on wikipedia, documentation websites, etc, I have been able to cut out the middleman.

Also, people slag on wikipedia's search functionality a lot, but I've found it to actually be pretty good even with imprecise searches. For instance, I forgot the name of Lubyanka, but searching for "KGB prison" found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=kgb%20prison

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by kbrosnan » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 6:06 PM UTC

jahabrewer wrote: post #152

I'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?

In the search settings disable "Show search suggestions ahead of browsing history in address bar results"

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by nullcipher » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 6:07 PM UTC

This is like perl but better

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by cobbaut » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 6:10 PM UTC

adql wrote: post #119

All I want for this dumb thing is to * correct ttps:// to https:// * stop searching internet for local hostname I type into the bar

> stop searching internet for local hostname I type into the bar

Yes, please. I have a separate address bar and search bar in Firefox, and it still insists on searching DDG for local hosts names when I type them in the address bar. Stop doing this. (The solution for now is to type http://localname/ )