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Firefox has has an "omni" bar for a long time. Firefox could search your bookmarks and history as you type in an URL (in addition to keywords that could trigger
by 8ytecoder 5y ago
Firefox has has an "omni" bar for a long time. Firefox could search your bookmarks and history as you type in an URL (in addition to keywords that could trigger searches). It was one of the key reasons (in addition to tabs) that I switched to Firefox back in the day. (Or am I misremembering this?)
- chrismorgan 5y agoIt was back in Firefox 3 (released a few months before Chrome was announced) that Firefox’s address bar got the last significant pieces of that functionality and was dubbed the AwesomeBar. I think that at that time Firefox still struggled with single-word searches from the address bar, treating them as domain names; if so, that was probably the last material difference (as distinct from social) before Firefox could reasonably remove the search box by default.
- WorldMaker 5y agoYes, Firefox was one of the first to define the "omni" bar experience, but one of the slowest to remove (by default) a dedicated search box even after they proved most users were using the "omni" bar.