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A comment on Ask HN: Why is creating a custom Firefox search engine so difficult?.

Re:Ask HN: Why is creating a custom Firefox search engine so... by lixtra on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:14AM (#18217515)
Not the same UX but the same functionality is provided by smart keywords [1].

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...

In our company we use it conveniently to quickly access intranet services like jira.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is creating a custom Firefox search engine so... by turova on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:32AM (#18217560)
Thanks for the response, but I don't think this is the same functionality. Keywords are really useful for services that get searched sparingly. I shouldn't need to use a keyword for my default search.

What I'm looking to do is just be able to type text into the address/search bar and have it show up on a search engine with my custom parameters. I know I can add a keyword, but that's an extra prefix I need to type every time to work around something that shouldn't be an issue in the first place.

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