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Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by jabroni_salad »

wartijn_ wrote: post #55
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.

You can do this in Chromium as well. So it might be Chromium's best kept secret too.

yep, just hit up 'manage search engines' and add a shortcut. I use this to navigate to servicenow documents when someone IMs me their number, one of my most used workflow helpers.

    https:///text_search_exact_match.do?sysparm_search=%s

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by globular-toast »

I've used Firefox for over two decades at this point. I didn't know about these modifiers and I find that pretty awesome. For years I've had a few of my own quick searches set up, for example "wp thing" will take me to the Wikipedia page for "thing".

I realised recently I've taken the Firefox address bar for granted. I wasn't a big fan when it moved from a "simple" address bar. I still use a separate search bar and disable searching from the address bar in case I accidentally submit a search I didn't intend to.

But recently I was using Safari on an iPad and couldn't believe how terrible it was. It couldn't even remember pages I'd visited from a couple of days ago. I do bookmark things in Firefox but I've taken for granted being able to recall pages I've browsed months, maybe even years, ago from the address bar. How do people live without this?!

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by ugh123 »

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…

This is also available in Chrome!

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by naturalpb »

a_c wrote: post #61
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…

I have been using duckduckgo's bang feature for searching a particular site. e.g. !hn to search on here, !w on wiki and !g back to google is the result from ddg looks off.

I love DDG's bangs. If I want to see Google results, I use !s for Startpage instead. It's Google results through Startpage's search proxy.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by nullgeo »

The opposite is true in Chrome-- the address bar a little more than completely useless. I use it mostly for web development but this feature along with manifest v3 introduced by Chrome might make me switch to Firefox for good.

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by chimprich »

benplumley wrote: post #57
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.

F6 works too, and you can press it again to unfocus it (TIL)

> and you can press it again to unfocus it

That is useful! Wonder why Ctrl-l and alt-d don't work like that?

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by dugmartin »

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…

This used to be baked into Chrome too but they removed it. I'm guessing to juice the Google search metrics.

https://twitter.com/googlechrome/status/1504858912692084745

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by 369548684892826 »

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.

Also ctrl-shift-t to undo close tab

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by adql »

All I want for this dumb thing is to

* correct ttps:// to https://

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

Re: Firefox address bar

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Post by myfonj »

wartijn_ wrote: post #65
ghostpepper wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does one search open tabs in Chrome?

By starting your search with "@tabs" You can change that behavior in the settings

Interestingly, in Microsoft Edge, entering `%` does the same as typing `@tabs `. And `^` as `@history`.
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