Firefox 43 released with 64-bit version for Windows, better Private Browsing

Re:Firefox 43 released with 64-bit version for Windows, bett... by Nadya on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @05:04PM (#10740827)

Navigation bar has accepted searches for ages. Keywords also made the search bar entirely redundant. Prior to keywords the search bar had the ability to switch which search engine was searched giving it a slight edge over the location bar.

I forget exactly when keywords came out but its been bloody ages.

I hate being post rate limited..

"TIL" in response to ptx. I've actually never bothered with the search bar so was unaware of that behavior.

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Re:Firefox 43 released with 64-bit version for Windows, bett... by ptx on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @05:18PM (#10740893)

I know you can search from the navigation bar (and keywords were there even in the Mozilla suite, weren't they?), but the difference from the search field is that the search field shows suggestions, which means that it has to send what you're typing to your search provider as you're typing it.

The navigation bar only searches locally (the history and bookmarks on your disk) and doesn't send anything anywhere until you press enter.

I was under the impression that this was considered a feature and the reason for keeping both fields even though they could easily have been unified long ago.

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