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Not everyone is understanding what you're saying, as evident by the downvotes you're getting I'm fulltime FF but I won't pretend that the in-site (site specifi
by grimgrin 7y ago
Not everyone is understanding what you're saying, as evident by the downvotes you're getting
I'm fulltime FF but I won't pretend that the in-site (site specific) search works as smoothly as it did (does?) in Chrome
In Chrome you would go to foo.com and you would use their search input and from then on, in your address bar you can type foo (or maybe just f, depending on how often you use foo.com), and press <tab> to search within the site
This is a workflow you get used to
For the longest time I wanted this in FF, but I think the real thing that clicked for me was just heavily leaning on duckduckgo's bangs
https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
(Firefox does have in-site search, which you can use by right clicking in the site's search input and clicking "Add a Keyword for this Search", but I'm not even sure how it works heh)
edit: okay so this is how it works https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address... and I just added `a` for amazon.com and I typed `a` in the address bar and pressed <enter> and it didn't do anything, hm
edit2: so I guess my main point should have been: Firefox has a manual step for what Chrome did for "free", after you made your first in-site search, which you were probably already going to do
- inferiorhuman 7y agoNot everyone is understanding what you're saying, as evident by the downvotes you're getting Well also I'd like the address bar to be a fucking address bar and not an address-but-sometimes-search bar.
- crummy 7y agoHow does the tab-to-search feature in Chrome negatively affect how you use the address bar? Are you entering URLs with tabs in them?
- grimgrin 7y agoIt doesn’t negatively effect it. I like it I was highlighting what I missed when switching over
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- grimgrin 7y agoHm, yeah, probably can't help you there Minimally you can restore the search bar, and now `ctr-k` will focus that bar, while `ctrl-l` will continue focusing the address bar HOWEVER.. if you type keywords and not a domain in the address bar, it's still gonna search. That's the rub you don't like, I suppose https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-search-bar-firefox-toolbar https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-search-bar-firefox-...
- mikedilger 7y agoHere are a few firefox settings to make your URL field behave only as a URL field: user_pref("keyword.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.fixup.alternate.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.searches", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.filter.javascript", true); You can put these in a "user.js" file in your profile directory if you don't have one already, or just set them in about:config
- zizee 7y agoFWIW, I believe most if not all of these settings are also available under preferences | search.
- reaperducer 7y agoThank you for perfectly illustrating why Firefox will not find the mainstream acceptance of other browsers.
- saagarjha 7y agoAlmost nobody will enable this, though.
- vurpo 7y agoIt's not like Chrome has an easy and user-friendly way to do the same thing. Quite the opposite: Chrome has no way at all to do this, while Firefox has a technical way to do it even if it's not obvious to most users that it's possible.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoI'm pretty sure that Opera and Firefox had that search feature before Chrome was even released ?