they killed this feature on mobile/android/fennec.
they also killed ctrl+key shorts... cannot ctrl+w or ctrl+t anymore (was THE killer feature on the key2/priv)
Firefox address bar
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#292The 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…
Chrome broke this recently, for shortcuts that have no substitution.
The ominibox history takes over.
For example, I used to be able to just type, "yt" and go to youtube, but now Ominbox history replaces it with my most recent history item that has "yt" in it
shortcut: "yt", goes to youtube https://www.youtube.com/
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#293Earlier 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.
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.
Power users are firefox's main demographic.
I see this so much so, it's to the point that If I see you're using something else, I assume you're not a developer, and you're likely not a power user.
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#295What would make my hoard of bookmarks actually useful would be if this interface supported searching tags, folder names, or any kind of metadata for the bookmarks beyond the title and url.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I don't open 400 at once, they accumulate over time (I mostly open about 50-200 at once). And of course I am using tree style tabs, otherwise I would not be able to use more than 50 tabs efficiently (right now I have 71 opened, because I cleaned it up at the end of june). But that is not the point. The arrow tab search does the exact same thing as using % modifier in the address bar. I still can't search pages that a…
Oh well I wasn't aware this limitation applied there too (don't use it too often myself). I agree this is bad behavior.
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#297searching for history clear winner in all those shortcuts
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#298Earlier 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.
You risk driving away your evangelists for one.
If you only focus on the most popular features you eventually narrow your product to one feature, so obviously there is a balance in there somewhere between focus and utility as well. Identifying why people use your product is as important as knowing what they use. Chrome does all the things I actually use from Firefox, but I use Firefox because when I ever need slightly more hackability it is there for me. That is at best, a once a year occurance.
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#299Neat.
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#300I just wish Firefox would stop trying to open external programs when I type "site:" in the address bar. It's so annoying to type "site:example.com hello" and just get a "No apps available" dialog and have to retype my search, manually specifying a search engine that time. I'm not sure if it's a bug with Snap, Firefox, or both, but it is beyond infuriating.