Am I the only one to accidentally paste my main firefox password into the address bar and having it searched by google?
Firefox address bar
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Re: Firefox address bar
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Kids, never learn keyboard shortcuts from strangers in the internet
Re: Firefox address bar
#243All I want for this dumb thing is to * correct ttps:// to https:// * stop searching internet for local hostname I type into the bar
You probably could fix this using the extension "Redirector" and creating a filter for it..
Re: Firefox address bar
#244All I want for this dumb thing is to * correct ttps:// to https:// * stop searching internet for local hostname I type into the bar
> stop searching internet for local hostname I type into the bar Yes, please. I have a separate address bar and search bar in Firefox, and it still insists on searching DDG for local hosts names when I type them in the address bar. Stop doing this. (The solution for now is to type http://localname/ )
As long as your local names aren't changing all the time, an easy way is to create a keyword in your Firefox bookmarks, for each local host. That's specifically a keyword, not a tag. You can edit them in the Manage Bookmarks screen.
One nice feature of this is you can give a more complete URL for each keyword, for instance typing "nas" could link to "https://192.168.0.4:8181" with an IP and port number. It's instantly fast, and doesn't rely on a functioning DNS server.
Re: Firefox address bar
#245The 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.
Not really, Chrome-based browsers have search keywords too.
What I would like most on the Chrome-based browser I have to use at work is history (^ keywords) and bookmark searching (# tag keywords, or * bookmark keywords) using "awesomebar" operators that Firefox has.
I'd really really like it if a form of search keywords could be used for forms that don't work as GET requests.
Re: Firefox address bar
#246I 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…
> Even Safari is miles ahead of Chromium in this regard. I hate Safari's address bar. One visit to a mistyped address can ruin your suggestions forever, that typoed URL will be always preferred over the correct one. Firefox's address bar is indeed great. Always works flawlessly.
This was my biggest gripe when I used a MacBook 6 years ago. You’re telling me this issue still persists in current versions of Safari? Ridiculous.
Re: Firefox address bar
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does one search open tabs in Chrome?
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
Ctrl+Shift+A works in Edge too, they don't have the caret as a search dialog handle though. TIL. Includes recently closed tabs too.
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#248Parade, 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…
Interesting. I use ^history all the time and it has been working extremely well for me. It's the number one thing I miss every time I use Chrome.
On chrome - Command-Y searches history. However typing in the address bar searches your history, open tabs, etc all at once. That's all I ever use. I get pretty much everywhere in 3 or 4 keystrokes.
Re: Firefox address bar
#249The 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…
Is there some mobile browser with the same macro feature for address bar?
Re: Firefox address bar
#250I 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…
I agree, Firefox address bar is miles ahead of any other browser. I just hope they don't mess it up in the name of UX
As we speak the Mozilla CEO, on reading this comment, is probably saying "see, they love our innovative addressbar; so we should focus innovation efforts entirely on that, make it entirely new, ... nothing stays the same ... we could make it vertical!" ...