Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

Re:Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? by jraph on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:27PM (#15709611)

The keyword trick given by others is nice. If like me you are lazy, use the autocomplete feature.

First manually type the URL with the search terms and validate. Then for your second search type some unique part of the base URL and it appears because it is in your history, press down and modify the URL for your new search.

When you have done this several times, it seems firefox understands what you are trying to do and autocompletes the URL with the common parts.

Works Weil with wiktionary, wikipedia and WordReference for instance. Special mention to WordReference with its friendly URL scheme.

Works on firefox mobile too.

I canot remember how to validate autocompletion, my fingers do it themeselves. It must be something like Right or CTRL+Right. On mobile, it is a touch.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? by joshka on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:38PM (#15709893)

Tried this a few times, didn't seem to trigger. Thanks for the suggestion though. I have enough specific searches that switching to the keyword trick works well enough for me.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? by jraph on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:40PM (#15725779)

I wonder why it works for me and not for you. I guess I'll have to guess what in my usage pattern allows that :-)

Maybe I accessed the base URL without the query parameters.

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