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This is why I love vimperator[0]. I actually preferred pentadactyl[1] but development apparently stalled so I switched back.
[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/vimperator/
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/pentadactyl/
Is there any substitute in firefox for Chrome's keyword searching? That's the only chrome feature I really care about.
I made the switch to DDG about 2 years ago and am pretty happy, though I do occasionally use the !g. Switched back to FF on my desktop a couple months ago when I got my keon and I love it. The only thing that's hard to get used to again is a search bar separate from an address bar. Chrome really had that figured out. A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.
Did you RTFA?
"Firefox separates the address and search bars. Coming from Chrome, that sounds insane. Use Omnibar to combine the two."
I actually never ended up switching to Chrome from Firefox in the first place, but those are still good tips. I guess I did the right thing :) Yes, it has a terrible memory leak issue, but all of my computers have enough ram as to not notice. I'm still not ready to make the switch to DuckDuckGo. I figure that if I'm going to stick with Gmail no matter what, if Google already has that information, collecting a few sea…
> Also, perhaps I'm missing something, but as far as I > can tell Chrome is at least partially open source, no? > http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code > > Why aren't people forking it to create a more privacy > friendly version? People citing privacy as a reason to move away from Chrome are doing so on moral rather than technical grounds. Chromium itself doesn't have anything harmful in it, so ther…
All sorts can happen between source and binary.
One really nice thing about firefox is no more He's Dead Jim pages. Chrome (even stable) seems to crash tabs all the time, while in the past 6 months firefox nightly hasn't crashed more than a once or twice. Another annoying thing about chrome is I never got a reason for a crash it just was a crash page and if I tried to reload that page it was very likely to crash silently again, with chrome at least I get the stop…
It took me a minute to figure out what you were referring to then I realized I haven't seen one of those in months -- since, I believe, I stopped using Flash.
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Is this not default behavior? I've never had an addon installed, but just typing in a query and pressing enter in the URL routes it to Google... Edit: Ah, I suppose the auto-complete is different.
Also Sometimes for some non URL queries it defaults to what feels like an 'I'm feeling lucky' search.
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Windows 8 does this across machines
Argh, you replied just when I had deleted. Sorry. To anyone wondering my comment was saying that I couldn't find any service comparable to Google's sync last time I tried Firefox. Google's sync effortlessly syncs all machines tied to an account including bookmarks, extensions, and themes. I figured I'd try out the latest Firefox and see if I can get it working before I definitively make the comment. Thanks for the ti…
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> Also, perhaps I'm missing something, but as far as I > can tell Chrome is at least partially open source, no? > http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code > > Why aren't people forking it to create a more privacy > friendly version? People citing privacy as a reason to move away from Chrome are doing so on moral rather than technical grounds. Chromium itself doesn't have anything harmful in it, so ther…
Well you hope it is. All sorts can happen between source and binary.
I made the switch to DDG about 2 years ago and am pretty happy, though I do occasionally use the !g. Switched back to FF on my desktop a couple months ago when I got my keon and I love it. The only thing that's hard to get used to again is a search bar separate from an address bar. Chrome really had that figured out. A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.
> A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser. Did you RTFA? "Firefox separates the address and search bars. Coming from Chrome, that sounds insane. Use Omnibar to combine the two."
Is there any substitute in firefox for Chrome's keyword searching? That's the only chrome feature I really care about.
If you bookmark any website's search results page, you can add a keyword and edit the bookmarked URL to include a printf-style %s placeholder. When you enter the keyword plus some string, Firefox opens the bookmarked URL, substituting your string for %s.
For example, I have a "w" keyword search for Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?search=%s and a "yt" keyword search for YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&search=Searc...