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I'm not saying you don't need a search box, but I use the address bar as my search box. That's even the default layout in Google Chrome isn't it?

by andrew1 16y ago

desigooner 16y ago
So far, I prefer the Chrome approach of a unified address+search bar to the Mozilla approach of 2 separate boxes. 1 keyboard shortcut to access either is far better than 2 .. if you type a search term in the firefox address bar as well, it'll search it for you ..
- andrew1 16y ago
  Maybe stating the obvious here, but you can just remove the search box from Firefox and they look pretty much the same.
  - bmelton 16y ago
    Except that you then don't have a search box. That's the magic of Chrome, is that the address bar IS ALSO the search box.
    - andrew1 16y ago
      You might have to mess around with the default behaviour but you can use the Firefox address bar as a search box. You can set it up so that typing 'g foo' searches for foo on Google, 'w bar' searches for bar on Wikipedia etc. It's actually more useful than the search box (in my opinion) as you can set up shortcuts so 'gm' will open google mail, 'lol' will open up the lolcats website. So there's really no need for a bookmarks bar either (as long as you can remember your shortcuts!).
shrikant 16y ago
Chrome is my primary browser, but every now and then what I really miss about the two separate bars in Firefox is this use-case: 1) Select and right-click word/phrase on page 2) Select a search engine from search bar list 3) Look it up instantly on whichever search engine has focus in the search bar. In Chrome this wouldn't be possible without a form of overhead somewhere (add-on, user script, using keyboard, etc.) Just to clarify, I'm not against using the keyboard shortcuts - just that when I'm reading a page with a hand on the mouse/trackpad, it annoys me a just a little bit to switch to the keyboard and back to the mouse again.
- natep 16y ago
  Try using duckduckgo.com as your default search provider. If you feel like doing a search on a different search engine, you can just preface it with the appropriate ! (bang) command, e.g. !g = google, !w = wikipedia

I'm not saying you don't need a search box, but I use the address bar as my search box. That's even the default layout in Google Chrome isn't it?

by andrew1 16y ago

I'm not saying you don't need a search box, but I use the address bar as my search box. That's even the default layout in Google Chrome isn't it?

desigooner 16y ago

So far, I prefer the Chrome approach of a unified address+search bar to the Mozilla approach of 2 separate boxes. 1 keyboard shortcut to access either is far better than 2 .. if you type a search term in the firefox address bar as well, it'll search it for you ..

andrew1 16y ago
Maybe stating the obvious here, but you can just remove the search box from Firefox and they look pretty much the same.
- bmelton 16y ago
  Except that you then don't have a search box. That's the magic of Chrome, is that the address bar IS ALSO the search box.
  - andrew1 16y ago
    You might have to mess around with the default behaviour but you can use the Firefox address bar as a search box. You can set it up so that typing 'g foo' searches for foo on Google, 'w bar' searches for bar on Wikipedia etc. It's actually more useful than the search box (in my opinion) as you can set up shortcuts so 'gm' will open google mail, 'lol' will open up the lolcats website. So there's really no need for a bookmarks bar either (as long as you can remember your shortcuts!).

shrikant 16y ago

Chrome is my primary browser, but every now and then what I really miss about the two separate bars in Firefox is this use-case: 1) Select and right-click word/phrase on page 2) Select a search engine from search bar list 3) Look it up instantly on whichever search engine has focus in the search bar. In Chrome this wouldn't be possible without a form of overhead somewhere (add-on, user script, using keyboard, etc.) Just to clarify, I'm not against using the keyboard shortcuts - just that when I'm reading a page with a hand on the mouse/trackpad, it annoys me a just a little bit to switch to the keyboard and back to the mouse again.

natep 16y ago
Try using duckduckgo.com as your default search provider. If you feel like doing a search on a different search engine, you can just preface it with the appropriate ! (bang) command, e.g. !g = google, !w = wikipedia