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For me it's mostly just the combined search & url field. Once you get used to that, anything else feels awkward.
by msluyter 16y ago
For me it's mostly just the combined search & url field. Once you get used to that, anything else feels awkward.
- Xurinos 16y agoIn Firefox, (1) View >> Toolbars >> Customize (2) Drag your search box out of the bar (3) Okay (4) Go to any search engine. For example, go to google. (5) Right-click in the search box, and choose "Add Keyword for this search" (6) Give it a friendly name. For a google search keyword, I might suggest "g". Now, when you want to search in Firefox's single URL bar, you can type "g cute cat pictures". Add the "cpan" search keyword for the search.cpan.org box, and in the same bar, you can type "cpan Moose". Want to define a word? Set up a keyword for the box at dictionary.com (Would "d" work for you?). Also, Firefox has NoScript and supports the latest version of JavaScript (Chrome is years behind).
- Groxx 16y agoNever knew about that one... that's awesome. Many many thanks!
- CountHackulus 16y agoThe search keywords is the main reason I can't get used to Chrome. After years of typing g <search> or wiki <search>, I'm having a lot of trouble readjusting.
- skymt 16y agoYou can use keywords in Chrome: go to Options > Basics > Default search > Manage, pick a search engine, click Edit, and enter your keyword. It's a few more steps than in Firefox, but at least it doesn't clutter your bookmarks.
- Groxx 16y agoI think Chrome one-ups them, actually. It keeps track of search engines you visit, so you can go there now and fill out ones you've already used without browsing anywhere.
- EventHorizon 16y agoChrome appears to automatically add keywords (the site name by default) when it detects something searchable... good to know.
- Perceval 16y agoYou can do this with Firefox currently. You can remove the search box from the UI using "View > Toolbars > Customize..." Any term you type into the URL bar that Firefox doesn't recognize as a URL will default to a google search. I actually edited this in about:config to default to a secure google search rather than a basic google search. If you want to get more advanced, you can set keywords to perform custom searches. I have mine set so that typing "w <string>" will search for the Wikipedia article. I use several others "i <string>" for image search, "n <string>" for news, "d <string>" for definitions, and so on. They're easy to set up.
- inferno0069 16y agoI go a little bit further and also drag up the URL bar (and a few buttons) into the Menu toolbar and then disable the navigation toolbar.