Firefox not a particularly great browswer

Chrome, the search bar is the url bar, why does FF not have this? :crylaugh:
 
backstreetboy said:
The Chrome omnibox. You only need one search bar that can search anything. Many other browsers also copied it.
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I'm not following you.
How do I search in specifically youtube or Amazon etc. when using Chrome? I don't want to have to type in 'youtube' or 'amazon' with every search query.

Johnatan56 said:
No, but I disabled that in ff as well, just type the search in the address bar. If you need to google a website, usually there is a search option add the bottom of suggested, else just add space and a .
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I don't want to detour via google all the time. Sometimes I want to search for something specifically in youtube or another site.
 
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saor said:
I'm not following you.
How do I search in specifically youtube or Amazon etc. when using Chrome? I don't want to have to type in 'youtube' or 'amazon' with every search query.
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site:youtube.com Your search string Or site:Amazon.com what you want

ps: this works in all browsers ;)

/me runs
 
Rickster said:
Chrome, the search bar is the url bar, why does FF not have this? :crylaugh:
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It is... You can use the customize UI in the drop-down on the left and move the search bar away. I use the address bar to search.

saor said:
I'm not following you.
How do I search in specifically youtube or Amazon etc. when using Chrome? I don't want to have to type in 'youtube' or 'amazon' with every search query.

I don't want to detour via google all the time. Sometimes I want to search for something specifically in youtube or another site.
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There are multiple search engines you can add in firefox.
Chrome allows you to type: website search, so youtube.com hit space and that will search using the sites search engine. It's a feature I would like FF to have, I am sure there is an addon for it. The website has to have a search engine ability, e.g. bing.
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I'm surprised, I thought people would miss having a site-specific search area.

What I like about that search field in firefox is I can just enter the query and then choose where the best place to search would be. With chrome I now need to first think about where I want to search and then the search query. Dunno, just seems silly to place primary focus on where to search rather than what to search.

I know it's not a huge deal, but I prefer a browser to allow me to search in a way that makes sense to me. I really enjoy Chrome but miss the searching of firefox.
 
saor said:
I'm surprised, I thought people would miss having a site-specific search area.

What I like about that search field in firefox is I can just enter the query and then choose where the best place to search would be. With chrome I now need to first think about where I want to search and then the search query. Dunno, just seems silly to place primary focus on where to search rather than what to search.

I know it's not a huge deal, but I prefer a browser to allow me to search in a way that makes sense to me. I really enjoy Chrome but miss the searching of firefox.
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Guess its because Google or maybe the way we ask has gotten so good we dont need to limit searches any more. That reminds me of another joke:

google-second-page-desperate.jpg
 
saor said:
I'm surprised, I thought people would miss having a site-specific search area.

What I like about that search field in firefox is I can just enter the query and then choose where the best place to search would be. With chrome I now need to first think about where I want to search and then the search query. Dunno, just seems silly to place primary focus on where to search rather than what to search.

I know it's not a huge deal, but I prefer a browser to allow me to search in a way that makes sense to me. I really enjoy Chrome but miss the searching of firefox.
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Then just set it up as a search engine. For me typing something and then having to go trawl through a list to pick one is wasting time.
 
saor said:
I'm not following you.
How do I search in specifically youtube or Amazon etc. when using Chrome? I don't want to have to type in 'youtube' or 'amazon' with every search query.

I don't want to detour via google all the time. Sometimes I want to search for something specifically in youtube or another site.
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backstreetboy said:
That is way too much typing.
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Johnatan56 said:
having to move my hand back to my mouse takes me longer than typing the site name... :p
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You guys are all doing it wrong. In Chrome, just go to search settings and define the keywords for each search engine you care about. Change the main ones to one or two letters.

Thereafter, you just press space or tab after those letters and Chrome will activate site-specific search. For example, to search Youtube I type "y" and with a tap of the space bar Chrome is ready for my search term.
 
semaphore said:
What do you mean by backup? Backup what?


What exactly are you trying to restore?
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The session data.


LOL at how people are trying to figure out search. In old Opera you just prefaced a letter in the address bar (not even search bar) and it would invoke the site specific search string. Most current ones were even preconfigured.
 
AlphaJohn said:
Guess its because Google or maybe the way we ask has gotten so good we dont need to limit searches any more. That reminds me of another joke:

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Have sometimes, scratch that, many times ended up in the Indiana Jones spiderweb cave of the internet, page 10 and above, especially when looking for old drivers.

I felt how you feel when you leave the city and take a drive into the sticks with not another soul in sight.
 
Bryn said:
You guys are all doing it wrong. In Chrome, just go to search settings and define the keywords for each search engine you care about. Change the main ones to one or two letters.

Thereafter, you just press space or tab after those letters and Chrome will activate site-specific search. For example, to search Youtube I type "y" and with a tap of the space bar Chrome is ready for my search term.
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Swa said:
The session data.


LOL at how people are trying to figure out search. In old Opera you just prefaced a letter in the address bar (not even search bar) and it would invoke the site specific search string. Most current ones were even preconfigured.
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You missed the post above yours.
 
Ho3n3r said:
Even Edge has that, and it's the dumbest of them all.
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Who the faq uses that schitty browser, Microsoft is so backward it's not even funny anymore. Bunch of control freaks run that place, hard to comprehend exactly what target market they are aiming for other than the most simple users.

I use Opera as a spare browser if I need to test something or have dual logins for certain email providers, it's blazing fast, still very good, can't topple Firefox though. I have run Firefox with 500 tabs(obviously with many snoozed) starts getting a little sluggish and uses almost 4gb of ram but still useable.
 
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Swa said:
The session data.
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I'm sorry, maybe I'm just not getting it. My PC / Browser has crashed a multitude of times. When it loads up it asks me if I would like to restore my previous tabs etc.? Does yours not do that? (chrome btw).
 
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