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I've recently switched from Vivaldi back to Firefox, and I'm unfortunately finding this somewhat lacking. In Vivaldi you are able to set the URL for any custom
by aquova 8y ago
I've recently switched from Vivaldi back to Firefox, and I'm unfortunately finding this somewhat lacking. In Vivaldi you are able to set the URL for any custom search you wish (for example, a Google search would be setup via https://www.google.com/search?q=%s https://www.google.com/search?q=%s), however in Firefox this seems to rely entirely on whether or not there exists a plug-in to provide this function. Just yesterday I wanted to setup a Wolfram Alpha search in this manner, only to find out that it wasn't possible due to the Wolfram search bar plug-in being out of date. For many search shortcuts like this I've been forced to rely on DDG's bangs.
- mFixman 8y agoYou can do this with Firefox for most searches. Just right click -> add keyword for this search.
- wolfgang42 8y agoFirefox lets you set up search shortcuts for any keyword, but the feature isn't very discoverable. (I just found out about it last week.) You right-click on the search field and select "Add a keyword for this search". Then when you do a search you just put your keyword before the search term, like "yt cat vs cucumber" to search YouTube. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
- contravariant 8y agoThis can also be done manually by going through the bookmark menu (Ctrl+Shift+B) and adding a keyword. Using this keyword then replaces the phrase "%s" in the URL with the search string. You can e.g. create a bookmark to 'https://whereisscihub.now.sh/go/%s' https://whereisscihub.now.sh/go/%s' with the keyword 'sci' to search for articles or urls on scihub.
- rhizome 8y agoRight-click the input field on the Wolfram Alpha site.
- rosstex 8y agoWhy did you switch back, may I ask?