Re:The Firefox Dilemma
by chrismorgan on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:20AM
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It’s possible to use search engines instead, but creating your own basically requires you to find or craft a search box that is equivalent to the desired action. It’s in no way easy to work with (not like making a bookmark with the %s placeholder), and isn’t quite as pleasant to use in the awesome bar either. I’m with you that removing bookmark keywords would be very annoying at present.
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Note that it should be pretty easy to write an add-on that generates a search provider. It's just a simple (and open-standard) xml format.
Not enough time to write one myself these days, but if keywords disappear, I might.
To alleviate the pain somewhat, I switched a while ago to setting DuckDuckGo as my default browser, and simply using their bangs. Saves a lot of configuration when setting up a new browser, and all the expected ones (!w, !yt, !g, etc.) work.