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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.
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 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.
Parade, here comes the rain. I hate who I've become these days, only ever complaining about stuff, but here we go: I find "^history search" to be actually and annoyingly useless because Firefox, like Chrome and seemingly every other browser, has unreliable, short-living browsing history. The times where I find myself trying to use the "^-search" in Firefox are always just a little bit after whatever I was searching f…
What do you mean by "history retention window"? My Firefox instance has history dating back to 2016 at least...
My favourite find of the past 12 months is Ctrl+L which gives the address bar focus so you can begin typing.
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…
Totally agree. I basically don't use bookmarks at all because the super awesome FF fuzzy search in the bar just works with my mental model (i.e. I recall some letters/words of what I want, and it usually just appears there)
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And then there’s tree style tabs. But actually I moved to Chrome due to how many issues I ran into with tree style tabs due to firefox not letting do its thing
So, if I understood you correct, you had issues with TST and instead of disabling TST, you went for Chrome?
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…
There is Duckduckgo Bangs - https://duckduckgo.com/bangs . They directly searches inside a website. There are a total of 13,563 bangs of websites. Twitter, Amazon, Stackoverflow, wikipedia, arch linux. You have to set your search engine to DDG though. Wanna check if Thunderbird v115 is in arch repos? Ctrl + L, !archpkg thunderbird Boom! My favourites: !w searches inside Wikipedia !so searches for that term inside sta…
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've wrote the same, with the same algolia example :D Do you remember if it was possible to edit or add custom search engines from GUI before? I remember having them, but I can't find it. Also it seems to me as a basic feature and not a "killer feature".
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-custom-se...
Parade, here comes the rain. I hate who I've become these days, only ever complaining about stuff, but here we go: I find "^history search" to be actually and annoyingly useless because Firefox, like Chrome and seemingly every other browser, has unreliable, short-living browsing history. The times where I find myself trying to use the "^-search" in Firefox are always just a little bit after whatever I was searching f…
What do you mean by "history retention window"? My Firefox instance has history dating back to 2016 at least...
Actually I started looking and found the hidden history manager view, which allowed me to at least view history as a table that can be sorted. It seems that my history goes back to 2021, which is more than I thought but much less than it should. And that's by "Most Recent Visit" column. There are two more hidden columns that can be enabled, "Added" and "Last Modified", but both have no values for any entry in history.
As for search - I picked a history entry at random (literally dragged the scroll bar 2/3 of the way down and focused on first line that caught my attention), and attempted to find it in the address bar using "^-search" with words taken directly from the page title. The entry I was looking for showed only on the third attempt, and then it took two more before it stopped disappearing when I typed in the next word from its title. This suggests some kind of slow, async background search is going on - which would explain why it never worked for me: I never expected something like this could take more than an instant, especially without any indicator saying "still searching" or whatever.
So I guess maybe it "works", it's just slow enough to be useless.