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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?
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…
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…
It is unfortunate that add-ons cannot add a set of keywords: it would be great to have all DuckDuckGo bangs defined as keywords by an add-on.
That's really cool! But perhaps this should be made discoverable by e.g. showing the tokens or just a list of different search options somehow (right clicking the address bar, or a small button on it you can press, ...) BTW something I really dislike about firefox is the switch to tab behavior when your bookmark/url happens to match an open tab: I guess it tries to be economical and bring you to a tab where you alrea…
There are buttons at the bottom of the address bar for Bookmarks, Tabs, and History, and they even show you the shortcuts.
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> Awesomebar Haha! Hello, fellow longtime Firefox user. I also vividly remember this term in Firefox's marketing a long time ago, but the most recent results on Google are from circa 2010. Seems they've largely dropped it as a public-facing term :)
Heh, this was a fun fact to learn. Had no idea they stopped using it. Thanks for sharing!
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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 company intranet has a shortcut/URN website that we all configure as "go", so "go home", "go paystubs", etc. Anyone can create URNs. No more stale bookmarks when the HR system keeps changing. Very useful!
Pro tip: you can also append % at the end to have the same result (it wasn't always like that, which used to be super annoying if you forgot to type it at beginning).
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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…
And IIRC, Chrome copied this from Opera. It's a shame Opera never found its audience (or more specifically, a revenue stream), they pioneered a lot of browser features that we consider to be standard these days, like tabs and support for extensions.
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My company intranet has a shortcut/URN website that we all configure as "go", so "go home", "go paystubs", etc. Anyone can create URNs. No more stale bookmarks when the HR system keeps changing. Very useful!
Chase?