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I prefer it this way...The address box works as a search bar but the search is persistent (ie. I can search for something, close the tab and come back later in

by aroch 13y ago

I prefer it this way...The address box works as a search bar but the search is persistent (ie. I can search for something, close the tab and come back later in two key presses)

eterm 13y ago
I've recently tried to switch back from chrome to Firefox but the persistent search thing really bugs me, as well as the fact that it doesn't always search when typing into the url bar. If you want to get back so quickly there are recently closed, bookmarks, history and plenty of other ways. Always persisting the search term I find very visually distracting. Edit: On the other hand, the current tab behaviour is more of an irritation. Middle clicking the tab closes the tab unless it's the last tab when it does nothing. This is irritating. Dragging a tab doesn't work well when that tab is maximised. In chrome if you have 2 windows both maximised it's easy to drag a tab from one window to the other. In firefox you have to make one window smaller first to do this. I'm quite excited to find out if this new interface fixes this.
- yeukhon 13y ago
  There is a not-so-well-known trick. Type % into the url bar and you can quickly navigate tabs opened. :)
  - sp332 13y ago
    To be specific, starting a search with a % searches only in open tabs. + searches tagged pages, * searches bookmarks, and ^ searches frequently-visited pages that aren't bookmarked.
kibwen 13y ago
I also prefer them separate, but rather for ease of navigation. I use the address box as a form of "search my browsing history" to jump to pages that I've visited before, and it's convenient to keep that separate from the search box's own history and automatic suggestions. The fact that Chrome conflates these two concepts is its biggest turn-off to me.
- johnath 13y ago
  If you're living in your awesomebar and don't already know them, you might want to check out our filters: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs#w_changing-results-on-the-fly https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-b... You can restrict location bar matches to bookmarks only, urls only, open tabs only, &c. I don't know if it counts as an easter egg, but it makes my own life a lot easier.
Pxtl 13y ago
My problem with conflating search and URL is 1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off. 2) cluttering my typed-URL history with search keywords.
- aroch 13y ago
  1) My feelings as well 2) Bothers me to an extent but since FF ranks by usage + weights naked domains higher in the awesomebar it isn't too big an issue.
  - Pxtl 13y ago
    On (2), that's good. I have a WP7 phone and it's terrible about typed URLs in the history... search words obliterate your typed URLs 90% of the time.
- ngpio 13y ago
  > 1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off. With DuckDuckGo, it's easy to prepend/append "!ddg" onto the offending text to force a search. I sometimes have to do this for arithmetic operations, the first operand of which the bar interprets as an address. For me, the small amount of extra time this takes is worth it. A unified search/URL bar, particularly with DDG's bang functionality, feels like a command line. And a command line feels like home.
  - antsar 13y ago
    !ddg is quite a few extra keystrokes though. Isn't it easier to just keep a shortcut key bound to that search? For example, I have 'g' bound for Google. The result: "blah blah" -> Google: blah blah "blahblah" -> attempts to find a host named blahblah "g blahblah" -> Google: blahblah
    - chris_wot 13y ago
      Depends whether you are a vi fan or not.

by aroch 13y ago

I prefer it this way...The address box works as a search bar but the search is persistent (ie. I can search for something, close the tab and come back later in two key presses)

eterm 13y ago

I've recently tried to switch back from chrome to Firefox but the persistent search thing really bugs me, as well as the fact that it doesn't always search when typing into the url bar. If you want to get back so quickly there are recently closed, bookmarks, history and plenty of other ways. Always persisting the search term I find very visually distracting. Edit: On the other hand, the current tab behaviour is more of an irritation. Middle clicking the tab closes the tab unless it's the last tab when it does nothing. This is irritating. Dragging a tab doesn't work well when that tab is maximised. In chrome if you have 2 windows both maximised it's easy to drag a tab from one window to the other. In firefox you have to make one window smaller first to do this. I'm quite excited to find out if this new interface fixes this.

yeukhon 13y ago
There is a not-so-well-known trick. Type % into the url bar and you can quickly navigate tabs opened. :)
- sp332 13y ago
  To be specific, starting a search with a % searches only in open tabs. + searches tagged pages, * searches bookmarks, and ^ searches frequently-visited pages that aren't bookmarked.

kibwen 13y ago

I also prefer them separate, but rather for ease of navigation. I use the address box as a form of "search my browsing history" to jump to pages that I've visited before, and it's convenient to keep that separate from the search box's own history and automatic suggestions. The fact that Chrome conflates these two concepts is its biggest turn-off to me.

johnath 13y ago
If you're living in your awesomebar and don't already know them, you might want to check out our filters: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs#w_changing-results-on-the-fly https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-b... You can restrict location bar matches to bookmarks only, urls only, open tabs only, &c. I don't know if it counts as an easter egg, but it makes my own life a lot easier.

Pxtl 13y ago

My problem with conflating search and URL is 1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off. 2) cluttering my typed-URL history with search keywords.

aroch 13y ago
1) My feelings as well 2) Bothers me to an extent but since FF ranks by usage + weights naked domains higher in the awesomebar it isn't too big an issue.
- Pxtl 13y ago
  On (2), that's good. I have a WP7 phone and it's terrible about typed URLs in the history... search words obliterate your typed URLs 90% of the time.
ngpio 13y ago
> 1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off. With DuckDuckGo, it's easy to prepend/append "!ddg" onto the offending text to force a search. I sometimes have to do this for arithmetic operations, the first operand of which the bar interprets as an address. For me, the small amount of extra time this takes is worth it. A unified search/URL bar, particularly with DDG's bang functionality, feels like a command line. And a command line feels like home.
- antsar 13y ago
  !ddg is quite a few extra keystrokes though. Isn't it easier to just keep a shortcut key bound to that search? For example, I have 'g' bound for Google. The result: "blah blah" -> Google: blah blah "blahblah" -> attempts to find a host named blahblah "g blahblah" -> Google: blahblah
  - chris_wot 13y ago
    Depends whether you are a vi fan or not.