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It used to be two different lines in the address bar in Firefox. Then Chrome came along with the omnibar and people liked it so it stuck.

yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
At least Firefox still lets you put back a dedicated search box
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
  On my Firefox 79, if I pop open a new tab, 1) the cursor is refocused from the search box to the URL bar and 2) the URL bar is a search box (even if search-in-url-box is successfully disabled in not-new tabs). Even better, the option to set new tab to a webpage is gone. The only choices are the Firefox default page or a blank webpage. Normally this wouldn't be a problem. I'd just try one of the dozen of known tweaks to about:config or userChrome.css and defeat this behavior. Except none of them impact this. Again, this is only for a new tab.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
    Ew, yeah, that's a pain. FWIW, and as a workaround and not any sort of defense of FF breaking itself: You could, from an existing page, type what you want in the search box, then middle-click (or ctrl+click) the search button, which opens the result in a new tab. Again, you shouldn't have to do this, but it seems like it'd patch your workflow.
    - WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
      In the end I opted for an extension - it redirects a new tab to a web page of my choosing. The action is a bit distracting but it happens fast enough that it's not a bother. I'll note it was the 2nd extension I tried. It may be some onerous Firefox security measure needs to be bypassed & the first extension hadn't managed it yet.
numpad0 6y ago
It used to be two different boxes in Opera. Early Firefox or IE didn’t have a search box.
- wyattpeak 6y ago
  Firefox 1.0 had a search box, see the screenshot at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history#Firefox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history#...

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It used to be two different lines in the address bar in Firefox. Then Chrome came along with the omnibar and people liked it so it stuck.

by freehunter 6y ago

yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
At least Firefox still lets you put back a dedicated search box
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
  On my Firefox 79, if I pop open a new tab, 1) the cursor is refocused from the search box to the URL bar and 2) the URL bar is a search box (even if search-in-url-box is successfully disabled in not-new tabs). Even better, the option to set new tab to a webpage is gone. The only choices are the Firefox default page or a blank webpage. Normally this wouldn't be a problem. I'd just try one of the dozen of known tweaks to about:config or userChrome.css and defeat this behavior. Except none of them impact this. Again, this is only for a new tab.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
    Ew, yeah, that's a pain. FWIW, and as a workaround and not any sort of defense of FF breaking itself: You could, from an existing page, type what you want in the search box, then middle-click (or ctrl+click) the search button, which opens the result in a new tab. Again, you shouldn't have to do this, but it seems like it'd patch your workflow.
    - WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
      In the end I opted for an extension - it redirects a new tab to a web page of my choosing. The action is a bit distracting but it happens fast enough that it's not a bother. I'll note it was the 2nd extension I tried. It may be some onerous Firefox security measure needs to be bypassed & the first extension hadn't managed it yet.
numpad0 6y ago
It used to be two different boxes in Opera. Early Firefox or IE didn’t have a search box.
- wyattpeak 6y ago
  Firefox 1.0 had a search box, see the screenshot at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history#Firefox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history#...