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A comment on Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash instead of query string?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash ins... by notzorbo3 on Monday January 09, 2017 @03:57AM (#13354988)
It's not that cumbersome in Chrome. Right click the URL bar -> "Edit search engines" -> Find the search engine you'd like to easily search, double click the second column and enter a keyword for it. For example, for wikipedia, I have "wp" as a keyword. In the URL bar, you can just type "wp<tab>" and you can search wikipedia.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash ins... by notatoad on Monday January 09, 2017 @04:38AM (#13355166)
you don't even have to do any configuration. after you've used a search box that's correctly formatted (like wikipedia's is) chrome automatically offers you the option to "press tab to search" when you start typing that's site's url.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash ins... by Ajedi32 on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:59AM (#13356736)
Yep, I use this feature all the time and I think there's only ever been one or two sites I've had to set it up for manually. For most sites, Ctrl+T <First 2-3 Letters of Site Name> <Tab> <Search Query> <Enter> works just fine without me having to configure anything.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash ins... by MiddleEndian on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:33AM (#13356528)
The level of customization offered in Firefox is a nice benefit though, as you can add a wildcard to any portion of a URL.

I have some specific shortcuts like wdir (walking directions from my home address) and some shortcuts that allow me to quickly jump to subsections of specific sites.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash ins... by zer0t3ch on Monday January 09, 2017 @07:31PM (#13361407)
You don't even need to use the tab key. It automatically works for me just from pressing space after the keyword in Chrome. In the end, the usage is identical to FF.
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