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The one thing I always, always miss when I attempt to switch from Firefox to Safari is how Firefox automatically executes an I'm Feeling Lucky search from the a
by jsdalton 18y ago
The one thing I always, always miss when I attempt to switch from Firefox to Safari is how Firefox automatically executes an I'm Feeling Lucky search from the address bar. It's an even better feature now that it searches my history/bookmarks first, allowing me to save the I'm Feeling Lucky step if I find a match first.
Safari mimics the live search of bookmarks/history in Safari 4, but what happens if I don't find a match there? I'm left with the search term in my address bar, and now I have to jump over to the Google Search field, retype my query, execute it, and then mouse down to the search results to get where I'm going.
Sigh.
Of course, if Firefox didn't regularly take up 15-20% of my CPU resources after having it open for 10 minutes I wouldn't be trying out new browsers every 3 months!
- unalone 18y agoI liked the unified approach that Chrome used a lot. Safari's wonky solution (go to "[].com") is one of the few things I dislike about the browser. However, I don't often find a need to search for a query I type into my browser, since I most often use direct URLs for that.
- jsdalton 18y agoOnce you get used to using the address bar as a search field, it's addicting. Right now, for example, I'm working on a project in Django, so I'll type things like "django queryset" in my browser bar and it will pop me straight through to the documentation for it. Point being, I use it for more than just hitting the home page of a website.
- unalone 18y agoI guess my browsing model works a bit differently, then. I use a keyboard shortcut to search, so that's just as approachable as the URL bar to me.
- jsdalton 18y ago> I use a keyboard shortcut to search Out of curiosity, what do you mean?
- unalone 18y agoI have Command-E mapped to Safari's search bar, and Command-2 mapped to a Javascript prompt to search (which helped with a bug that seems to have disappeared in Safari 4). Since the two fields were an equal number of keystrokes away, I've never found myself entering something in the URL bar that I meant to search. (I guess if I did have to, I would Command-A-C-tab-V it to save time - not too much of a time loss.)
- nirmal 18y agoI accomplished this effect with Keywurl (http://purefiction.net/keywurl/ http://purefiction.net/keywurl/) but apparently it doesn't work with the beta.
- ja2ke 18y agoYeah Firefox's address bar is the best. One feature which few people seem to know is the "keyword" field in bookmarks -- you can type a phrase in there (eg "bugs" for your local bug database) and Firefox will read that in the address bar properly. It makes browsing to key sites amazingly quick if you're a keyboard-focused user.
- superchink 18y agoThis is the main thing keeping me using Firefox. Now that I'm used to this, every time I try going back to Safari I feel crippled.