points by grimgrin 7 years ago

Not everyone is understanding what you're saying, as evident by the downvotes you're getting

I'm fulltime FF but I won't pretend that the in-site (site specific) search works as smoothly as it did (does?) in Chrome

In Chrome you would go to foo.com and you would use their search input and from then on, in your address bar you can type foo (or maybe just f, depending on how often you use foo.com), and press <tab> to search within the site

This is a workflow you get used to

For the longest time I wanted this in FF, but I think the real thing that clicked for me was just heavily leaning on duckduckgo's bangs

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

(Firefox does have in-site search, which you can use by right clicking in the site's search input and clicking "Add a Keyword for this Search", but I'm not even sure how it works heh)

edit: okay so this is how it works https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address... and I just added `a` for amazon.com and I typed `a` in the address bar and pressed <enter> and it didn't do anything, hm

edit2: so I guess my main point should have been: Firefox has a manual step for what Chrome did for "free", after you made your first in-site search, which you were probably already going to do

inferiorhuman 7 years ago

Not everyone is understanding what you're saying, as evident by the downvotes you're getting

Well also I'd like the address bar to be a fucking address bar and not an address-but-sometimes-search bar.

  • grimgrin 7 years ago

    Hm, yeah, probably can't help you there

    Minimally you can restore the search bar, and now `ctr-k` will focus that bar, while `ctrl-l` will continue focusing the address bar

    HOWEVER.. if you type keywords and not a domain in the address bar, it's still gonna search. That's the rub you don't like, I suppose

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-search-bar-firefox-...

  • mikedilger 7 years ago

    Here are a few firefox settings to make your URL field behave only as a URL field:

      user_pref("keyword.enabled", false);
  user_pref("browser.fixup.alternate.enabled", false);
  user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.searches", false);
  user_pref("browser.urlbar.filter.javascript", true);

    You can put these in a "user.js" file in your profile directory if you don't have one already, or just set them in about:config

    • zizee 7 years ago

      FWIW, I believe most if not all of these settings are also available under preferences | search.

    • reaperducer 7 years ago

      Thank you for perfectly illustrating why Firefox will not find the mainstream acceptance of other browsers.

      • saagarjha 7 years ago

        Almost nobody will enable this, though.

      • vurpo 7 years ago

        It's not like Chrome has an easy and user-friendly way to do the same thing. Quite the opposite: Chrome has no way at all to do this, while Firefox has a technical way to do it even if it's not obvious to most users that it's possible.

  • crummy 7 years ago

    How does the tab-to-search feature in Chrome negatively affect how you use the address bar? Are you entering URLs with tabs in them?

    • grimgrin 7 years ago

      It doesn’t negatively effect it. I like it

      I was highlighting what I missed when switching over

BlueTemplar 7 years ago

I'm pretty sure that Opera and Firefox had that search feature before Chrome was even released ?