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Firefox actually had both, you could always search with the "main" bar. That's why having two has been so infuriating over the years, if I ever had to use Firef
by pronik 5y ago
Firefox actually had both, you could always search with the "main" bar. That's why having two has been so infuriating over the years, if I ever had to use Firefox, I've removed the search bar immediately.
However, one thing that Firefox failed to fix over dozens of versions have been one-word-searches, which Chrome handled correctly while Firefox tried to resolve that one word as a domain and didn't even fall back to search if that failed. That single thing has brought me back to Chrome within minutes every time I've wanted to try Firefox again.
- WorldMaker 5y agoPrefix one word searches with a question mark and then space ("? ") will always search in Firefox. Old Power User trick from decades ago even when Firefox still had a split search box by default. (There's also search keywords to force it to search with a non-default search provider such as starting a search with "@wikipedia " to search Wikipedia.)
- LinAGKar 5y agoYes, I removed the search box and used search keywords long before they changed it. For the single word searches, I've never noticed such a problem. It should try to resolve it first, in case it exists on your LAN, and falling back to search works fine for me.