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All I want is tab to search. Actual, identical-to-omnibar tab to search.

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kibwen 3y ago
If you have the focus in the address bar and press Tab, Firefox puts you into search mode (while retaining focus in the address bar) using your default search engine. Is there something missing?
- archontes 3y ago
  I'm using Firefox right now. When I highlight in the bar and press tab, ONLY when the drop-down bar is showing, it moves the cursor down one to Amazon, which is not my default search engine, but the first one alphabetically. So that doesn't work. I also don't want to search my default search engine. I want tab to search for the panoply of websites that the omnibox will search. When I start typing ebay, I want "tab to search ebay". I know I can set them up manually (a pain, but might be worth the investment to avoid the google overlord), however, I still don't get the "tab to search blah" function with a keyword. I have to type the keyword exactly -instead of having tab function as autocomplete- then space for my query. What I want is omnibox tab to search.
  - kibwen 3y ago
    > When I start typing ebay, I want "tab to search ebay". You can configure Firefox to do this with a single checkbox. Go to Settings, click Privacy & Security on the side, go down to the Address Bar section, and make sure that "Search engines" is selected. When I do that, I can click in the address bar (which brings up the drop-down), type "ebay", and then you'll see "Search with eBay" appear below in the drop-down, and then a single Tab puts it into eBay search mode.
    - Vinnl 3y ago
      I think that's just because the ebay search engine is installed by default? They want this to work for any site with a search engine they've ever visited - at least, that's how it works in Chrome, IIRC.
  - aftbit 3y ago
    I also remember missing that feature dearly when I switched from Chrome to Firefox. However, some time in the intervening decade, they've actually added that to Firefox! I can type "<Ctrl-L>ebay<TAB>esp32<ENTER>" and I end up on the eBay search page for "esp32". Perhaps there is a setting or about:config option that needs to be toggled? Many of Firefox's best features are thusly hidden.
marcosdumay 3y ago
Actual search or autofill segment? Autofill segment would be really useful, and no modern thing seem to be able to do it. But tab to search doesn't look very useful to me.

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If you have the focus in the address bar and press Tab, Firefox puts you into search mode (while retaining focus in the address bar) using your default search engine. Is there something missing?

archontes 3y ago
I'm using Firefox right now. When I highlight in the bar and press tab, ONLY when the drop-down bar is showing, it moves the cursor down one to Amazon, which is not my default search engine, but the first one alphabetically. So that doesn't work. I also don't want to search my default search engine. I want tab to search for the panoply of websites that the omnibox will search. When I start typing ebay, I want "tab to search ebay". I know I can set them up manually (a pain, but might be worth the investment to avoid the google overlord), however, I still don't get the "tab to search blah" function with a keyword. I have to type the keyword exactly -instead of having tab function as autocomplete- then space for my query. What I want is omnibox tab to search.
- kibwen 3y ago
  > When I start typing ebay, I want "tab to search ebay". You can configure Firefox to do this with a single checkbox. Go to Settings, click Privacy & Security on the side, go down to the Address Bar section, and make sure that "Search engines" is selected. When I do that, I can click in the address bar (which brings up the drop-down), type "ebay", and then you'll see "Search with eBay" appear below in the drop-down, and then a single Tab puts it into eBay search mode.
  - Vinnl 3y ago
    I think that's just because the ebay search engine is installed by default? They want this to work for any site with a search engine they've ever visited - at least, that's how it works in Chrome, IIRC.
- aftbit 3y ago
  I also remember missing that feature dearly when I switched from Chrome to Firefox. However, some time in the intervening decade, they've actually added that to Firefox! I can type "<Ctrl-L>ebay<TAB>esp32<ENTER>" and I end up on the eBay search page for "esp32". Perhaps there is a setting or about:config option that needs to be toggled? Many of Firefox's best features are thusly hidden.

marcosdumay 3y ago

Actual search or autofill segment? Autofill segment would be really useful, and no modern thing seem to be able to do it. But tab to search doesn't look very useful to me.