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There really is no point to it. You can search from the url bar itself. The only reason to use it is if you want to search a different search engine. In which c

There really is no point to it. You can search from the url bar itself. The only reason to use it is if you want to search a different search engine. In which case they should copy opera and do key letter searching. Where you can type b search term and search bing. w search term and search wiki etc.

stan_rogers 16y ago
Ooh, I hate that behaviour. I'd rather the address field just work with previously-typed URLs the way it used to. Or at least that it made some small effort to use previously-typed URLs once in a while. As a developer, it used to be easy to visit/revisit a handful of pages without having to create a bunch of bookmarks I'd only wind up deleting at the end of the day. Since the address bar became "awesome", bookmarking became necessary. (At least Chrome uses typed URLs in preference to either bookmarks or search. Now if they'd allow API access to things like disabling JavaScript and displaying background images...)
moskie 16y ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you said, but you can currently do this in Chrome. Options -> Manage (searches) -> double click an existing search or add a new one -> set Keyword to a single letter.
- stanleydrew 16y ago
  I think he wants that functionality in FF.
  - CoryMathews 16y ago
    Although I did mean FF I didn't realize chrome had this yet. And they do it much clearer then Opera did. I really like the way that it auto changes to tell you that you are about to search yahoo, etc.
  - brown9-2 16y ago
    Firefox also has keyword search (i.e. type in "wp something" and go to the wikipedia page for "something") - you just have to define a keyword for an existing bookmark, and then place %s in the URL where you'd like the search term to appear. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%s I believe the default installation comes with a handful of these Bookmark "Shortcuts".
    - mbrubeck 16y ago
      In Firefox you can also right-click on a form field and choose "Add a keyword for this search..."

stan_rogers 16y ago

Ooh, I hate that behaviour. I'd rather the address field just work with previously-typed URLs the way it used to. Or at least that it made some small effort to use previously-typed URLs once in a while. As a developer, it used to be easy to visit/revisit a handful of pages without having to create a bunch of bookmarks I'd only wind up deleting at the end of the day. Since the address bar became "awesome", bookmarking became necessary. (At least Chrome uses typed URLs in preference to either bookmarks or search. Now if they'd allow API access to things like disabling JavaScript and displaying background images...)

moskie 16y ago

Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you said, but you can currently do this in Chrome. Options -> Manage (searches) -> double click an existing search or add a new one -> set Keyword to a single letter.

stanleydrew 16y ago
I think he wants that functionality in FF.
- CoryMathews 16y ago
  Although I did mean FF I didn't realize chrome had this yet. And they do it much clearer then Opera did. I really like the way that it auto changes to tell you that you are about to search yahoo, etc.
- brown9-2 16y ago
  Firefox also has keyword search (i.e. type in "wp something" and go to the wikipedia page for "something") - you just have to define a keyword for an existing bookmark, and then place %s in the URL where you'd like the search term to appear. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%s I believe the default installation comes with a handful of these Bookmark "Shortcuts".
  - mbrubeck 16y ago
    In Firefox you can also right-click on a form field and choose "Add a keyword for this search..."