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Just yesterday I was telling a colleague who was fighting with chrome (entering the address `something.companyname.local` caused chrome to search for that strin

by smcl 5y ago

Just yesterday I was telling a colleague who was fighting with chrome (entering the address `something.companyname.local` caused chrome to search for that string, he had to enter `https://something.companyname.local https://something.companyname.local` for it to work) they should just switch to Firefox. Bugs happen but this is a pretty annoying one.

Ekaros 5y ago
On other hand I find it annoying that the start page of Firefox has box I always think of as search, but it is also address bar. While address bar is already at top. So I search some filename just for it to try to access it...
- smcl 5y ago
  Oh weird you're right, I don't think I've ever interacted with that extra address/search bar. I wonder what they were thinking, that seems redundant and a bit silly
  - skinkestek 5y ago
    It is for people like me who doesn't want every domain I ever type in to be sent to Google or somewhere else for autocompletion. I mean, most of all lkve autocomplete, but when you type in <nameofprobationofficewebsite>.<tld> or what have you, are you sure you want everyone of these keystrokes to go to Google? If not then you want a separate search field.
    - smcl 5y ago
      Ah I think you're mistaken. We're talking about when you open a new tab in Firefox the default landing page has a little grid showing commonly accessed sites as well as an additional search/address bar which says "Search with google or enter address" We have the same feelings on this - I also would prefer an explicitly separate search bar and address bar. Edit: or maybe I'm understanding Ekaros' comment incorrectly? Either way the thing I'm talking about is that there's a combined search/address bar always visible in FF, and when you open a fresh window or tab there's a landing page which has an additional combined search/address bar.
      - skinkestek 5y ago
        Aha, very possibly I'm mistaken. I wondered why anyone still saw the search bar without explicitly enabling it.
        smcl 5y ago
        Well I'm glad it happened, otherwise I wouldn't have learned that it was actually possible to separate these two bars in Firefox. So thanks for that :D
      - Ekaros 5y ago
        No this is exactly correct. I can just write the address in address bar if I want. But I do not have search engine as default page or even have one in as bookmark. So I would love to just have a search box where I can copy paste a filename with either full path or as something.py... And browser to not try to access non existent .py domain which only has third-level addresses anyway...
        skinkestek 5y ago
        You can, just go to settings and enable it. (For everyone wondering why we crazy people stick with Firefox: there are actually a number of technical/ux reasons in addition to not wanting to give control of the web away to a single company.)
stef25 5y ago
FF does that as well with my local dev sites. It does suggest "did you mean to go to ...", which then works.
4cao 5y ago
FYI There is a workaround for this: add a search engine with "http://%s http://%s" (or "https://%s https://%s") as its query URL and make it the default one. And when you actually want to search, explicitly prepend the phrase with a keyword for another search engine (like "d<space>[search string]" for DDG).

by smcl 5y ago

Ekaros 5y ago

On other hand I find it annoying that the start page of Firefox has box I always think of as search, but it is also address bar. While address bar is already at top. So I search some filename just for it to try to access it...

smcl 5y ago
Oh weird you're right, I don't think I've ever interacted with that extra address/search bar. I wonder what they were thinking, that seems redundant and a bit silly
- skinkestek 5y ago
  It is for people like me who doesn't want every domain I ever type in to be sent to Google or somewhere else for autocompletion. I mean, most of all lkve autocomplete, but when you type in <nameofprobationofficewebsite>.<tld> or what have you, are you sure you want everyone of these keystrokes to go to Google? If not then you want a separate search field.
  - smcl 5y ago
    Ah I think you're mistaken. We're talking about when you open a new tab in Firefox the default landing page has a little grid showing commonly accessed sites as well as an additional search/address bar which says "Search with google or enter address" We have the same feelings on this - I also would prefer an explicitly separate search bar and address bar. Edit: or maybe I'm understanding Ekaros' comment incorrectly? Either way the thing I'm talking about is that there's a combined search/address bar always visible in FF, and when you open a fresh window or tab there's a landing page which has an additional combined search/address bar.
    - skinkestek 5y ago
      Aha, very possibly I'm mistaken. I wondered why anyone still saw the search bar without explicitly enabling it.
      - smcl 5y ago
        Well I'm glad it happened, otherwise I wouldn't have learned that it was actually possible to separate these two bars in Firefox. So thanks for that :D
    - Ekaros 5y ago
      No this is exactly correct. I can just write the address in address bar if I want. But I do not have search engine as default page or even have one in as bookmark. So I would love to just have a search box where I can copy paste a filename with either full path or as something.py... And browser to not try to access non existent .py domain which only has third-level addresses anyway...
      - skinkestek 5y ago
        You can, just go to settings and enable it. (For everyone wondering why we crazy people stick with Firefox: there are actually a number of technical/ux reasons in addition to not wanting to give control of the web away to a single company.)

stef25 5y ago

FF does that as well with my local dev sites. It does suggest "did you mean to go to ...", which then works.

4cao 5y ago

FYI There is a workaround for this: add a search engine with "http://%s http://%s" (or "https://%s https://%s") as its query URL and make it the default one. And when you actually want to search, explicitly prepend the phrase with a keyword for another search engine (like "d<space>[search string]" for DDG).