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This is the one reason I stick with Firefox. In Chrome if you search for the name of a YouTube video, with a string you know was in the title of the page, you'r
by lubutu 15y ago
This is the one reason I stick with Firefox. In Chrome if you search for the name of a YouTube video, with a string you know was in the title of the page, you're very unlikely to get that page as a result. If you're lucky you'll get another page with a link to the page you want in the suggestions list. In Firefox it'll almost always be an instant result, right at the top of the list. It seems strange, but Firefox's search really blows Chrome's out of the water.
- willy1234x1 15y agoThe Awesomebar is one of my main reasons why I never left Firefox. It really is just too great. The ability to use wildcards to narrow my searches is too great. Plus adding keywords for searches is too great, if I want to search Youtube, I type yt <search term>, Wikipedia? wk <search term>, these small features are such great boosts to my browsing experience.
- cromwellian 15y agoI just tried this experiment and I get the same results. Firefox uses Google search on the backend, so I don't see how it could be otherwise.
- ErikD 15y agoHe means using the auto-complete in your address bar, not actually searching with it.
- cromwellian 15y agoAuto-completing against what, against Google ala Google Suggest, or you mean auto-completing against your Web History?
- gcp 15y agoYour web history, which is what the address bar searches in Firefox. In Chrome these two aspects (history and Google search) are blurred, but it's not better for it. I'd say it is a good example of 2 half-assed features not making up for 1 good one.
- cromwellian 15y agoIf you want to search your Web History explicitly, just hit Ctrl-H. This is a case of personal preference. I rarely search my Web History, so I want my Omnibox real estate to be web search. Some people will prefer history ranked above search, others will prefer it the other way. Chrome should give you a preference setting for it.
- hammock 15y agoFirefox has a name for it, it's called the AwesomeBar!