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Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by viewtransform »

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…

Often times during a Teams meeting someone would wonder who had filed this ticket and I would "Control-L p Jose Smith" to instantly bring up the org chart for Jose Smith. People were amazed.

The Control-L/Command-L(mac) to focus the url bar. p is the keyword set to search the internal company org chart.

Another useful Firefox feature is to right click, Take Screenshot, and save the full web page rendered as you see it as an image. This is useful for those internal webpages with tables and fancy javascript rendered widgets that never properly render to pdf when saving the page.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by aldanor »

IceSentry wrote: post #178
atomlib wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I use vivaldi because of the tab stack feature and until firefox gets support for something close to it I just can't switch. I tried to browse the web without it but I always come back to vivaldi. I have a tab hoarding problem and it's the only browser that actually makes helps me manage it.

I use Firefox mainly because of TreeStyleTab which lets me have 1k-2k tabs with no problem. Beats all other vertical tab options I've seen so far in other browsers

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by jessriedel »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #122
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…

The same is available in Chrome. I made a list of shortcuts I use here [0] -- copying a few favorites below: shortcut: "aw", lets you type: "aw s3", "aw iam", etc. https://console.aws.amazon.com/%s shortcut: "amzn", searches the retail side https://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=%s shortcut: "gm", searches through gmail (change the 0 if you use multiple accounts) https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/%s shortcut…

My list:

Aliexpress alternativeto.net Amazon Apple AppStore ArXiv Bing Video BookFinder ISBN DHL Tracking Number DOI Resolver duckduckgo.com ebay.com Facebook HackerNews (Angolia search) ISBN Search Library Genesis MathOverflow Physics.StackExchange Scholarpedia Sci-Hub (DOI) SciRate (arXiv) Scite.ai Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com Tripadvisor.com Twitter Urban Dictionary Walmart Wayback Machine Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Weather Underground Yelp YouTube Video Search images.google.com scholar.google.com maps.google.com news.google.com scholar.google.com video.google.com

I have about half of these memorized enough to use regularly.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by zo1 »

mucle6 wrote: post #95
WXLCKNO wrote: post #66

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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....

Non power users would use this more if the docs, marketing and promotion of it was prominent and talked about (or made to look "sexy" for lack of a better word). I think what we're seeing is that the "UX" folk have hijacked the conversation and made it so that it is the only expression of the capabilities an app has for user interaction.

I'm sitting here, recalling all my chats and meetings and workshops with UX folk, and not once can I recall the topic of keyboard shortcuts or tab sequence being brought up. It was all about color, branding, spacing, user flow, "journeys", "experience", conversion funnels, and all things visual.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by ringer »

doodlesdev wrote: post #207
lousken wrote: post #86

The biggest annoyance for me with firefox is that there is no modifier to search across tabs in multiple containers. If I have 400 tabs open with temporary containers extension, it renders this search feature useless.

You can search across tabs using the tab search in the top right corner though (an arrow pointing down). There might be a shortcut for it but I'm not aware of any. Although if you are really opening 400 tabs at once I'd recommend either tree-style tabs or rethinking your life choices lol.

> You can search across tabs using the tab search in the top right corner though (an arrow pointing down).

Which uses the same broken stuff, so you can't actually search. Check this ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479858

Btw, the arrow icon cannot be moved from the tabs bar, annoying because I completely hide this bar, but sometimes it would be useful to have this menu.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by eitland »

fn-mote wrote: post #227
eitland wrote: post #213

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So, if I understood you correct, you had issues with TST and instead of disabling TST, you went for Chrome?

They want a good tab manager... so they changed because the one they tried for Firefox did not work.

Over to Chrome that - as far as I have found - is worse off than Firefox in all possible ways when it comes to tab management?

Have I missed something?

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by nashashmi »

guptarohit wrote: post #54
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.

Welcome to the club! The day I knew about it and till know I don’t think I ever clicked in search bar to search. This shortcut is very helpful! In similar context, Ctrl+w for closing tab.

Alt F4 is for duplicating the window with all of its tabs. /s
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